The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

4.x6 For Me and My Gal

This scene is a clear repetition of the scene at 4.9—with the significant variation that the exchange leads not to a separation but to a deepening of the partnership in question. The filmmakers repeat the long-take strategy for the first half of the scene, thereby underlining the point that the Jo–Harry interaction is a recurrence of the Jo–Jimmy interaction, only to switch to a shot-reverse-shot strategy for the second half of the scene, thereby reminding us that the Jo–Harry interaction ends differently, with romance.

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