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The Story of a Three-Day Pass : Opening Sequence

Turner (Harry Baird), an American G.I. stationed in France, receives a promotion and a three-day outing pass from his captain (Hal Brav).

Opening Sequence

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close-up, direct address, disjunctive editing, dolly out, freeze frame, handheld camera, hard cut, investigative camera, jump cut, match on action, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, mirror shot, mobile framing, monologue, music, nondiegetic, nondiegetic insert, opening sequence, over the shoulder shot, pan, point-of-view shot, prop, semidiegetic sequence, shallow focus, shot/reverse shot, sound lag, split screen, tilt, two-shot, voice-off, zoom-in

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"Opening Sequence" in The Story of a Three-Day Pass. Directed by Melvin Van Peebles, O.P.E.R.A., 1968, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2114

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