Post by Capo on Jan 28, 2007 14:34:15 GMT
The Derby
Robert W. Paul 1896 UK
Horses race down the final straight as crowds watch on; once the horses pass, the crowds of people invade the racetrack, followed and unsuccessfully contained by policemen.
An otherwise ordinary one-take short is made interesting in the context of Arrival of a Train, made in France a year previously. It has influenced Paul immensely here: the same kind of composition and movement within it: audience in the foreground and right of frame, with the action and movement cutting across from right to left... but there is an extension, a variation, played out by Paul, in that the crowd then move from foreground to background in the same shot, a whole sense of things falling apart once the vital information (the horse race itself) has been digested.
Robert W. Paul 1896 UK
Horses race down the final straight as crowds watch on; once the horses pass, the crowds of people invade the racetrack, followed and unsuccessfully contained by policemen.
An otherwise ordinary one-take short is made interesting in the context of Arrival of a Train, made in France a year previously. It has influenced Paul immensely here: the same kind of composition and movement within it: audience in the foreground and right of frame, with the action and movement cutting across from right to left... but there is an extension, a variation, played out by Paul, in that the crowd then move from foreground to background in the same shot, a whole sense of things falling apart once the vital information (the horse race itself) has been digested.