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Letter from an Unknown Woman : Closing Sequence

Stefan (Louis Jourdan) finishes reading Lisa's (Joan Fontaine) letter, learning that both she and their son (Leo B Pessin) have died of typhus, and decides to engage in his duel with Johann (Marcel Journet).

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closing sequence, crane shot, diegetic sound, dissolve, dolly in, explanatory insert, flashback, framing, high angle, long shot, medium close-up, montage, music, nondiegetic, narrator, pan, rack focus, retrospective plot, subjective insert, superimposition, tilt, two-shot

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"Closing Sequence" in Letter from an Unknown Woman. Directed by Max Ophüls, Universal Pictures, 1948, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2013

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