The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

4.x3 Magnificent Obsession

During the transition-to-sound period, filmmakers used the long take as an alternative to multicamera filmmaking. After the return to single-camera filmmaking, the long take remained a viable option throughout the 1930s, as in the films of Edmund Goulding and George Cukor. Here, John Stahl stages an understated three-minute take for the 1935 version of The Magnificent Obsession.

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