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It Happened One Night : Opening Sequence

Ellen "Ellie" Andrews (Claudette Colbert) and her father Alexander Andrews (Walter Connolly) argue about her upcoming marriage.

Opening Sequence

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dialogue, dissolve, establishing shot, high angle, match on action, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, music, nondiegetic, opening sequence, over the shoulder shot, pan, reaction shot, shot/reverse shot, soft focus, tilt, traveling shot, wipe

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

"Opening Sequence" in It Happened One Night. Directed by Frank Capra, Columbia Pictures, 1934, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3688

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