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...shoulders festooned by a long sheetlike strip of white cloth. There are Japanese prisoners, by that fact presumably among the softest defenders of their island; and in their bleak, barrelbodied, flintlike power you will recognize if you never did before that the enemy is indeed tough. There is a closeup of a bullet-hole in flesh, at once as intimate and as impersonal as if it were your own wound, so new you cannot yet feel it. There is a shot made through the slot of a tank of a Japanese soldier trying to evade the machine-gun bullets which...
Best shot: a closeup of Goodman's fingers nimbly executing turns and runs on the clarinet. Best music: a few bars from the Mozart Clarinet Quintet...
...Ginger comes downstairs into a huge closeup, the picture ends...
...Blessed Infantry. On our right was a group of infantrymen maneuvering around an area of thrashed foliage. We passed so close we could look into their eyes as though it were in a movie closeup. Not seeing the periscopes, they were unaware of our scrutiny. They seemed even unaware of the tank. Their eyes were sharp, wary, tired, but not alarmed...
...Griffith and his great cameraman Billy Bitzer, here shown working with Henry B. Walthall in The Escape, were the Founding Fathers of cinematic art. They discovered the closeup, the cutback, the truck shot (camera moving forward or backward), the fadeout, the fuzz-focused heroine's head which, esthetically, is Hollywood's chief inheritance from them. Some of their action sequences in The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), together with many by their brilliant, neglected contemporary, Thomas Ince, have seldom been equaled, never surpassed...