Capo
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Post by Capo on Jan 28, 2007 14:34:15 GMT
The DerbyRobert 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.
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