The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

2.7 Design for Living

Camera operator William Mellor does great, velvety work here, in perfect coordination with Miriam Hopkins’s every gesture as Gilda forms a pair with one man, a pair with another, and then a trio with both of them. The pictorial pattern—three, two, two, three—echoes the subtext of the scene.

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