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Imitation of Life : The Party

While Bea (Claudette Colbert) hosts a party, Delilah (Louise Johnson) comforts Peola (Fredi Washington) about her racial identity.

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camera leading, costume, crescendo, dialogue, dissolve, dolly in, fade-out, hard cut, long shot, match on action, medium shot, montage, music, diegetic, music, nondiegetic, pan, point-of-view shot, social blocking, traveling shot, two-shot

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"The Party" in Imitation of Life. Directed by John M. Stahl, Universal Pictures, 1934, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1843

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