Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camera slowly dollying in or out. Godard says that the director's decision to move the camera is a political act; for these greater film-makers, Lang and Ulmer, it is perhaps applicable that moving shots represent decisions of morality in terms of the dynamic relationship between foreground and background. In addition to Ulmer's command of composition, lighting, and occasionally dazzling montage, is his ability to translate these subtle aspects of morality into cinematic spectacle...
...preserved in suspended glass coffins; Ulmer's camera explores the photographic potential of the situation: one shot has Poelzig screen left, the girl screen right; another Poelzig reflected in the glass, his face partly superimposed over the girl; a third the corpse, her own reflected image, and Poelzig in background...
...your very perceptive Essay, "The Difficult Art of Losing," you overlooked perhaps the sweetest sour grape ever uttered: On March 9, 1832, Abraham Lincoln said, "If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined...
While the communiqué did not name names, allied diplomats did in background sessions with newsmen. Secretary Rusk declared to the ministers that...
...while it covers its subject--the nature of the Czechoslovakian character at the approach of the August invasion. The film is narrated with the simplicity of a Hemingway story, everything cut down to the essential facts. But the effect is tremendous because the camera work is excellent and the background music is good, while the mixing of the three elements--narration, film, and music--is perfect...