[bannie]

In Einstein's era, there was no accepted format. Everything was new, and there was not yet an established language for reading a film.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Perhaps so, but he was making film well into the 1940's and by then the idiom of film was well established. I don't know if his style changed by then or not. I'm no film critic so I may have left out a lot in my explanation. Regardless, it is obvious of what I have seen of his films there was great composition in the shots.