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The Best Years of Our Lives : Opening Sequence

3 American soldiers--Al Stephenson (Fredric March), Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), and Homer Parrish (Harold Russell)--seek to return home after World War 2.

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aerial shot, camera leading, close-up, dialogue, dissolve, dolly in, dolly out, establishing shot, eyeline match, fade-in, fade-out, framing, high angle, long take, match on action, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, music, nondiegetic, opening sequence, overhead shot, pan, rear projection, soft focus, tilt, traveling shot

Diversity in Media Representation

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

"Opening Sequence" in The Best Years of Our Lives. Directed by William Wyler, Samuel Goldwyn Productions, 1946, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3772

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