The Story of Film:Episode 9 – American Cinema of the 70s

1967-1979: New American Cinema.

Altman’s approach is innovative, He fills the screen with actors, Mics them all up, records all of there dialog at the same time then mixes a complicated soundtrack of overlapping dialog

The situation is tragic but the attitude is light-hearted which makes it an upside word

Some of the actors didn’t know if they were on camera due to long lenses

Shoots with naturalistic light, close-ups to see the actors faces

The camera romes, the lenses are long, the colors are muted

A scene was shot in documentary style

Black senators were protrade as drunks

Widescreen images

Showed how he mixed old and new

Took the idea of slowing down time to extend the scene

Panaglde is a camera on the body

Only the light from the flames where used

The images had the shallowest focus in cinema history

Had a scene shot like a Rembrandt patining

Shot widescreen had 30s muted color

Filmed with wide angles lenses, bright lights, and precise framing

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