The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

1.x11 The Last Laugh

In the opening scene, the camera is in an elevator, descending toward a lobby packed with people walking to and fro. Murnau lets us see the vitality of the location by packing his compositions with contrast, playing the back-and-forth motion on the floor against the up-and-down motion of the elevator railing.

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