The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

6.x17 No Way Out

As Cora reaches her arm around Luther, the camera dollies in to emphasize the intimacy between them. Then the camera does a remarkable thing: nothing. Rather than dolly in relentlessly to amplify the intensity, the camera simply pans and tilts to keep Cora and Luther in the center of the frame, granting Mildred Joanne Smith’s sensitive performance a respect rarely accorded to African American actors.

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