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Show Boat : Old Man River

Joe (Paul Robeson) sings about the Mississippi River.

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blocking, camera leading, close-up, crosscutting, cut-in, dissolve, dolly in, framing, full shot, high angle, high-key lighting, long shot, low angle, medium shot, music, diegetic, musical theme , narration, overhead shot, pan, point-of-view shot, prop, set, setting, shot/reverse shot, tracking shot, two-shot, wide angle, zoom-in

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"Old Man River" in Show Boat. Directed by James Whale, Universal Pictures, 1936, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1913

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