Sergei M. Eisenstein's "Bronenosets Potyomkin" ( "Battleship Potemkin" 1925)

I thought that "The Battleship Potemkin" begain with a pretty harsh view in terms of lighting the sets. All the shadows here where high in contrast to the natural light as welll as also being in sharp focus. This movie also sucsessfully uses side lighting or edge lighting to help define the characters faces and create nice tonal qualitys that where not really seen in earlier movies. Because the begining of this film is set on the ship you get large and dramatic light and dark areas throughout the ship, particularly noted is when the ships doctor is standing infront of the open hatchway that is spilling light into the small dark area where he stands. The use of gobo like effects can also be seen in this picture where a grate like gobo is cast over two characters when they are standing outside the ship.
Although this may have not been deliberate in some scenes you get the flicker of light as if the natural light is being reflected off the water and creating moving patterns of light througout the ships galley. The last lighting effect in this movie that i liked was where the mother is pleading to the soilders for the saftey of her baby, all we see is her pleading to the many soilders shadows that fall across her and the steps.