The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

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When Curly sings “Surrey with the Fringe on Top,” Laurey listens with fascination, imagining how delightful it would be to ride in such a surrey. By placing the camera in an unlikely spot, suspended underneath the carriage as it moves past a gaggle of geese, the filmmakers align us with Laurey’s position—not her literal position in space but something akin to her imaginative position, astonished by a strange and spectacular sensory experience that seems too vivid to be true.

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