metalmunki said:

The problem here I feel(in the original, not just your edit Ady), is that there is a straight cut from the one scene to the next, indicating no passage of time, where as we can clearly see 'the big one' pretty far away in the first shot.

Nope, you're labouring under the misapprehension that these films are playing in real time unless there's a wipe.

It's an absolutely standard aspect of editing grammar that a cut can omit unnecessary time - usually a matter of seconds, sometimes more - from a single scene. I would imagine that most viewers have an innate understanding of this.

If you start to pull on that thread, you'll have a wipe every 30 seconds...