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Today's shot is a remarkably sweet and surprising moment from George Steven's film of the famous Pulitzer prize-winning play The Diary of Anne Frank. Stevens was transformed by the war. A successful Hollywood director, he joined the US Army Signal Corps and lead a film unit that documented, among other events, the D-Day invasion and the horrors

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War Story, which L.A Weekly declared, if I may mention, "triumphs on all fronts" (L.A. Weekly review here). This is the film I was referring to in my post on Chaplin's film Pay Day. When I was first inspired to make this movie, I'd been so taken by Chaplin's work, felt such an immediate kinship, that I had to

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Youtube yanked the sample video of Temple of Doom (and others), so I was inspired to create my own, hosted by yours truly, to take advantage of Fair Use laws, and to maybe start expanding Shot4Shot into a youtube channel: Shot4ShotFilmBlog. Vlog 1: Temple of Doom Please check out the video below and let me know what you think.

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I love a good in-camera effect, and the ol' spinning set technique is one of my favorites. Whether it's in a musical number (Royal Wedding), an action sequence (Inception) or a horror film (Poltergeist), it's always a thrill. Today's shot is the immortally famous dance number from Royal Wedding of Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling, directed