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Chinatown : Opening Credits and Sequence

A woman (Dianne Ladd) asks private investigator, J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson), to look into her husband, Hollis Mulwray, who she believes is having an affair.

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Credits, Opening, Technicolor, close-up, dialogue, fade-in, fade-out, following shot, medium close-up, medium shot, music, nondiegetic, opening sequence, rack focus, shot/reverse shot, zoom-out

Diversity in Media Representation

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

"Opening Credits and Sequence" in Chinatown. Directed by Roman Polanski, Paramount Pictures, 1974, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3840

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Julia Sayette

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