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Vertigo : Discovering Acrophobia

Chasing a criminal over San Franciscan rooftops, detective Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) slips and, hanging from a gutter, watches as his fellow policeman dies trying to save him.

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chase sequence, close-up, color, crosscutting, diegetic sound, dolly out, dolly zoom, extreme long shot, fade-out, framing, high angle, low angle, match on action, medium long shot, music, nondiegetic, one-shot, opening sequence, overhead shot, pace, pan, point-of-view shot, reaction shot, reverse angle, setting, shallow focus, sound motif, static camera, subjective insert, symphonic underscore, tracking shot, two-shot, underscore, zoom-out

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"Discovering Acrophobia " in Vertigo. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Paramount, 1958, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1775

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