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Sunset Boulevard : Joe's First Night

Joe (William Holden) spends the night at Norma's (Gloria Swanson) and wakes up to all his belongings in the guest room.

Joe's First Night

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camera height, costume, depth of field, dialogue, dolly in, dolly out, eyeline match, fade-in, fade-out, flashback, framing, long shot, low angle, makeup, match on action, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, mise-en-scene, music, nondiegetic, narrator, over the shoulder shot, pan, point-of-view sound, reflexive narration, retrospective plot, set, shot/reverse shot, sound mixing, stylized acting, two-shot, voiceover narration

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

"Joe's First Night" in Sunset Boulevard. Directed by Billy Wilder, Paramount, 1950, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3287

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