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Imitation of Life : Opening Sequence

Lora (Lana Lurner) loses her daughter Susie (Terry Burnham) at Coney Island, only to find her with Annie (Juanita Moore) and her white-passing daughter Sarah Jane (Karin Dicker).

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ambient sound , close-up, crane shot, dissolve, dolly out, dolly shot, establishing shot, establishing sound, framing, long shot, long take, low angle, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, montage, opening sequence, over the shoulder shot, reaction shot, shot/reverse shot, two-shot

Diversity in Media Representation

Black: African-American, Black: Blackface, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, White: White American, White: White passing

"Opening Sequence" in Imitation of Life. Directed by Douglas Sirk, Universal International Pictures, 1959, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2627

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