For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

The flashback ends, and we find Ellington explaining to a hotel maid that he has spent the time since then hunting for the devil to atone for his mistake, through World War II, the Korean War, and the development of nuclear weapons.

In a flashback ( which runs for almost the whole duration of the film ) we see how Richard meets beautiful socialite Ellen Berent ( Gene Tierney ) on a train.

As she reminisces about her family life, we flashback to 1910, where the first of a series of vignettes finds Marta Hanson preparing the weekly budget with assistance from her husband Lars, daughters Katrin, Christine and Dagmar, and son Nels, who announces his desire to attend high school.

In a flashback, we learn that during her audition, she had met and talked to the puppets before meeting any human being.

Scrooge tells his nephews how Goldie stole his gold from him in the past, and how he kidnapped her and forced her to work for him at his claim, up until the point where we see-in a flashback scène-Goldie shouting at Scrooge and crying for her ruined dress.

Before the flashback scene, we see that Sylvia travels to Boston seeking funding for her school, which serves black children.

Throughout the film we see a flashback from Cole's childhood in which a man is seen to be shot dead by security in an airport.

However, some film critics, including those of Cahiers du cinéma, see the flashback as simply being an illustration of one person's version of the events: the events as recounted by the character whose voice-over we hear, which was presumably Hitchcock's intention.

Kalyani is in a prison in pre-Independence India for committing a murder, and we learn the circumstances of her crime in flashback as she divulges it to the jailor.

As an example to prove her point she tells a story about one man she was dating who defecated himself at the diner table ( as seen in Issue 2 of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac ), we then cut to another flashback once again an unspecified time ago, Devi is at a night club thinking about the music that is playing, when a man dressed as a vampire named Eric strikes up conversation.

As Galtsev reaches the execution room, we see a final flashback of Ivan's childhood: Ivan runs across a beach after a little girl in beautiful sunlight.

It is also revealed that Saturn Queen, last seen in " Absolute Power ", survived the reboot of the universe in Infinite Crisis and through flashback we learn that she has used her telepathic abilities to convince Ultraman that he is Kal-El and that she is his mother.

In Season 3 Episode 9 " Lows In The Mid-Eighties ", we see a flashback to how Karen met Rosario.

Goodnight soon appears and gouges Richie's eyes out, before we see a flashback to Goodnight's childhood ( being locked in a cage, drowning in the shower, and watching a strapped woman have her eyes removed by his mother ), suggesting his killing sprees are owed to religious abuse.

It is also possible that we see Mor-Tax environment in short Malzor's flashback in the episode " The Obelisk ".

In this flashback we would see Scorponok leading Wheeljack Thundercracker, Predacon, Terrorsaur and Skywarp against the Autobots in an unspecified battle on Cybertron.

In flashback we see that after she was shot, her blood splashed onto Hazama's face.

As we learn a few minutes later, what we are seeing in that scene is a flashback to the past, since the present of the film ’ s diegesis is a time directly following World War III.

During the flashback, we can hear the song Time of the Season of The Zombies.

In this flashback we would see Scorponok leading Wheeljack, Predacon, Terrorsaur and Skywarp against the Autobots in an unspecified battle on Cybertron.

Via second flashback, we learn that Panna and " Adi " were lovers once upon a time.

The story is punctuated by several extended flashback sequences in which we learn that Valentine's father, a supremely egotistical and domineering stage actor, has groomed his son almost from birth to follow in his footsteps.

The scene then cuts to a flashback of Mrs. Puff, presumably at the opening of her school, saying "... as long as a student is willing to learn, I shall never give up!

We also see Noal and Milly ( from Tekkman Blade ) in a flashback and learn what happened to Noal: he was apprehended by the military police supporting the General.

We learn in these flashback segments that Valentine Sr. subjects his son to monstrous and potentially fatal child abuse.

This film has a story that happened long before which is narrated by one character in the framing scene, and initially accompanied by his narrating dialogue in intertitles, though after a while this stops, and the intertitles then convey the dialogue occurring within the flashback.

Inside this main flashback there develops cross-cutting to another story, happening at the same time, and at first apparently unconnected with it, though the connection eventually appears.

Next, inside this first flashback, the Lady of the title narrates another story, presented in flashback form, but with cutaways inside it back to events occurring in the time frame in which she is doing her narrating.

Wynyard guilt-trips Robert into giving him money after telling him a horror story about his time in Vietnam ( shown as a flashback parody of the movie The Deer Hunter ).

Up to this point, his story is told in a flashback.

Aunt Evvie appears again in a flashback narrative told from the perspective of her niece Polly, one of the major characters in the story.

The studio, wary of such a pessimistic conclusion, insisted on adding a prologue and epilogue to the movie that suggested a more optimistic outcome to the story which is thus told mainly in flashback.

From here, the story is told in flashback using the memories of the men on the float.

Set in the same universe as the Eddings ' The Belgariad and The Malloreon, it is effectively one big flashback ( or a prequel ) to the other series, although the framework story is set after the events of The Malloreon.

* An Old Captivity ( 1940 ): the story of a pilot hired to take aerial photographs of a site in Greenland, who suffers a drug-induced flashback to Viking times.

The story unfolds in flashback as the four witnesses in the story — the bandit, the murdered samurai, his wife, and the nameless woodcutter — recount the events of one afternoon in a grove.

Within the story itself, after the murderer reveals himself, he narrates his reasons for the murder as a flashback of events leading up to the murder.

Within this flashback, an unreliable narrator tells a story to mislead the would-be murderer, who later discovers that he was misled after another character narrates the truth to him.

Professor Moriarty appeared in a flashback sequence ; a 135-year old Holmes had a brief cameo at the end of the story.

Aside from these flashback scenes, Mickey is depicted within the timeline of the main story dealing with hypochondria, his professional and creative conflicts in the television industry, and an existential crisis that leads to unsatisfying experiments with religious conversion to Catholicism and an interest in Krishna Consciousness.

He works mainly in the music hall tradition, although, in the past, has occasionally appeared in drama, including as Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on stage in Liverpool in 1971 ; on television in the cameo role of ' The Tollmaster ' in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen ; and as Yorick ( in silent flashback ) in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's Hamlet in 1996.

The story is told in a flashback by an American called David Ellington.

However, Fox chose to air the episode for the first time on March 28, a full month after Arturo had been written off the show, requiring a new opening scene be added to frame the story as a flashback.

The main narrative is introduced using a frame story in which most of the plot is presented as a flashback, as told by the protagonist, Francis ( one of the earliest examples of a frame story in film ).

Most of the movie is told as flashback: Puff ( Rhys Ifans ) testifies to Congress, Lila Jute ( Patricia Arquette ) tells her story to the police, while a dead Nathan Bronfman ( Tim Robbins ) addresses an unseen audience in the netherworld.

With a bit of coaxing, the aging spinster tells the story of her life, leading to a flashback.

" Variety wrote " script vividly brings to life the principal characters in this story of a shattered marriage, though Pinter's resort to flashback technique is confusing in the early stages.