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Letter from an Unknown Woman : Opening Sequence

Concert pianist Stefan Brand (Louis Jourdan) enlists his mute butler John (Art Smith) in helping him evade a duel, and sits down to read a letter from an unknown woman (Joan Fontaine).

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crane shot, depth of field, dissolve, dolly in, dolly out, dolly shot, establishing shot, explanatory insert, eyeline match, flashback, following shot, lighting, long shot, long take, low angle, match on action, mobile framing, music, diegetic, music, nondiegetic, narrator, nondiegetic insert, opening sequence, pan, retrospective plot, reverse angle, tilt, tracking shot, two-shot

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"Opening Sequence" in Letter from an Unknown Woman. Directed by Max Ophüls, Universal Pictures, 1948, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2004

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