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Some Like It Hot : Opening Sequence

The police raid a speakeasy owned by "Spats" Colombo (George Raft), where jazz band players Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) work.

Opening Sequence

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diegetic sound, dissolve, dolly in, eyeline match, fade-in, high angle, intertitles, long shot, long take, medium close-up, medium shot, mirror shot, music, nondiegetic, opening sequence, over the shoulder shot, pan, sound mixing, source music, tilt, traveling shot, two-shot

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LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, White: White American

"Opening Sequence" in Some Like It Hot. Directed by Billy Wilder, The Mirisch Company, 1959, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2539

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