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American Dream from Tribute-American (1924)

submitted by schmawy

1 decade 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago

"The American Theatre and Oakland Tribune sponsored a contest in 1924 for the best dream sequence made into a short film. Mrs. L.L. Nicholson from Oakland submitted the winning scenario, about losing her baby and then finding the child after a frantic trip to the San Francisco Ferry Building in a rowboat. This video is black and white and silent, but is very interesting and provides a fascinating look into 1920s America." [YT]

Finally I find a Shortfilm worthy of the great Sarzo's Channel.

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Fascinating how editing has evolved over the years, the long takes for the sake of exposition are so dated. I was watching a film from the 50's the other day, and everybody constantly used the other character's name, I'm sure it was to help make the exposition more obvious. A very respected editor named Walter Murch wrote a book called "In The Blink Of An Eye", which addresses this...editing has evolved to work with our natural pacing of eye blinks, exposition unfolds in our current idea of 'real time'...
If this film were made today, the exposition would take up maybe ten percent of the film, and the rest would be hallucinatory dream visuals, the reverse of this...

*promote so more people can read that^ insightful comment. And more votes. Buy ~~War Bonds~~ Power Points, Folks!

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, May 16th, 2008 9:47am PDT - promote requested by original submitter schmawy.

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