Close Up (Mar-Dec 1933)

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186 CLOSE UP Technically much simpler but very interesting in its effect was a moving camera shot Mr. Pabst ordered to be constructed in the film Westfront. The scene showed soldiers proceeding through an entanglement. Mr. Pabst wanted to photograph the people from below while they were working their way through the entanglement, he wanted to track with them and accompany them to their new shelter. At the end of the track when the soldiers arrive in a shell-crater*, the camera is to look down into it from above. Thus the * Granattrichter = the funnel-shaped hole a shell makes in the earth.