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Chinatown : Closing Sequence

In Chinatown, as "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) tries and fails to explain the truth to Lieutenant Lou Escobar (Perry Lopez), Evelyn (Faye Dunaway) is shot. Katherine (Belinda Palmer) is taken by her father/grandfather Noah Cross (John Huston).

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Credits, Opening, Technicolor, close-up, color, dialogue, dolly in, dolly out, establishing shot, extreme long shot, fade-out, framing, high angle, lighting, long shot, match on action, medium close-up, medium shot, music, nondiegetic, pan, reverse angle, shot/reverse shot, sound bridge, special effects, tilt, traveling shot, two-shot

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Asian, Asian: East Asian, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, Latinx, White, White: White American

"Closing Sequence" in Chinatown. Directed by Roman Polanski, Paramount Pictures, 1974, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3846

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Julia Sayette

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