The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

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Like the voiceover, the camerawork initially promises knowledge, peeking through windows to expose connections the characters do not yet see. But the camera’s promise of knowledge soon proves hollow. The rigorous pattern of the lateral dolly, moving from one window to the next, provides only a brief glimpse of each character, and we spend almost as much time looking at the partitions between the windows as we spend looking at the characters themselves.

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