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After each exercise, Sylvia asked: "Does anyone want to share his experience with us?" When one of us made a revealing response, she deftly turned the group's attention -like a movie director shifting a camera-toward him, moving in for a closeup that was soon followed by flashbacks and moments of drama...
Died. Abraham Zapruder, 65, Dallas dress manufacturer who took the only closeup motion pictures of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; of cancer; in Dallas. Carrying an 8-mm. movie camera loaded with color film, Zapruder posted himself near the Texas Book Depository and started filming as the presidential motorcade rolled past. In detail, the approximately 20-sec. sequence shows the bullets striking the President, and the panic of that moment. Portions of the film later appeared in LIFE, and became important evidence for the Warren Commission...
...completely successful." Candy Bergen reports that she had never had such fun working in films before co-starring with him and adds: "He was the first person to teach me to enjoy acting." One of Elliott's lessons consisted of standing off-camera while Candy was doing a closeup for Getting Straight and mugging furiously to get her to respond. "He never throws a tantrum, never gets into a snit," says Bob Altman, who made M*A*S*H. "He knows exactly what he wants...
...story was written by Lance Morrow, edited by Jason McManus and researched by Marion Knox. Lance has been involved with the flag, government and politics since a stint as a Senate page gave him his first closeup look at congressional figures, including Senators
Despite their perfection, the cuts like the camera motions are made deeply affecting by the background's quality of malleability. One closeup in bed is extremely disturbing because in the dark the characters' faces become part of the tangibly expressive world of the background. More generally, the characters' detailed actions in the foreground gain incredible emotional resonance from the deeply colored backgrounds, and when a tracking shot turns a corner with a character and sets the background plane at a different angle, the affective quality of the shot is completely changed...