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Written on the Wind, 1956. Douglas Sirk.
Classical Hollywood melodrama, here an establishing shot is made by starting on a fragment and then enlarging, and a line is established so that the door will always been screen right, and Bacall screen left. This is the 180 degree rule in action.
While the canonical establishing shot is to show all the space and then show parts, here it is reversed, a common move in fiction and nonfiction narrative.
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