Nonlinear narrative a linear storyline, while nonlinear films often contain linear sequences. Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" (1941)—influenced structurally by "The Power and the Glory" (1933)—and Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" (1950) use a non-chronological flashback narrative that is often labeled nonlinear. Experimentation with nonlinear structure in film dates back to the silent film era, including D. W. Griffith's "Intolerance" (1916) and Abel Gance's "Napoléon" (1927). Nonlinear film emerged from the French avant-garde[5] in 1924 with René Clair’s "Entr'acte", Dadaïst film and then in 1929 with Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí's "Un Chien Andalou" (English: "An Andalusian Dog"). The surrealist film jumps into fantasy and
Préludes flasques (pour un chien) Barrel"), a title Debussy found so offensive that Satie changed it to "Avec camaraderie" ("With Friendship"). He may already have been dissatisfied with the work as it stood. After publisher E. Demets rejected the score in the first week of August, Satie told his protégé Alexis Roland-Manuel, "I am going to destroy the "Préludes flasques", and begin anew." He followed through on the second part of this statement with the "Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien)", which he completed by August 23 and successfully sold to Demets in September. In his 1948 biography of Satie, Rollo H. Myers cited Roland-Manuel