[From Backfire (dir. Vincent Sherman, 1950). Click for a larger view.]
The Glendale address appears to be fictional, but SYcamore was indeed a Los Angeles EXchange name. The business card filling the screen is what I call a low-grade reality effect. Without the close-up, a skeptical viewer might think that a character had been handed nothing but a blank bit of cardstock.
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Unfortunately, it's common in movies today, to show an important clue on a note or a screen, like a cell phone screen, but it's too small to really pick up. It's very frustrating.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes wonder if it's meant to get the viewer to pause. Or maybe there's an assumption that the viewer has an enormous screen.
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