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Double Indemnity : Opening Sequence

Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) stumbles into his office late at night with a gunshot wound in his shoulder.

Opening Sequence

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backlighting, chiaroscuro, dissolve, dolly in, dolly shot, establishing shot, high angle, long shot, long take, low angle, low-key lighting, medium close-up, medium long shot, music, nondiegetic, narration, narrative cuing, pan, retrospective plot, source lighting, tilt

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

"Opening Sequence" in Double Indemnity. Directed by Billy Wilder, Paramount Pictures, 1944, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3790

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