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O Brother, Where Art Thou? : Opening Sequence

Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney), Pete (John Turturro), and Delmar O'Donnell (Tim Blake Nelson) escape from a Mississippi chain gang in search of Everett's buried treasure. They encounter a blind seer (Lee Weaver).

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Credits, Opening, color, color correction, dissolve, dolly in, dolly shot, establishing shot, establishing sound, extreme long shot, eyeline match, fade-out, foreshadow, handheld camera, high angle, intertitles, location, long shot, low angle, match cut, match on action, medium close-up, medium shot, mobile framing, music, diegetic, music, nondiegetic, one-shot, opening sequence, overhead shot, pan, reverse angle, sepia tone , shot/reverse shot, sound advance, source music, tilt, title sequence, two-shot, whip pan

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Black, Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Cisgender Person, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, White, White: White American

"Opening Sequence" in O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Directed by Joel Coen, Touchstone Pictures, 2000, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3781

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Sid Bell

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