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tracking in. He hears the stick and retreats to window. Camera moves into C.S. as he sits down on the sill. He closes his eyes as noise of Countess's dress and stick gets louder and louder.
Herman looks up.
He closes his eyes again.
Tapping stick and dress rustling
Stick and dress sound ceases.
Wind blows.
Countess's voice :
I am commanded to grant your request . . . three . . . seven . . . ace ... I forgive you my death on condition that you marry my ward, Lizaveta Ivanovna.
Stick and dress rustling die away.
.Herman opens his eyes and looks round the room. Camera pans up to sword hanging on wall.
The sequence is significant from our point of view for the manner in which the director has chosen to convey the state of mind of his character. The whole passage, right up to the end of shot 20, is an elaborate preparation for the visitation which occurs in 21. A series of separate images of individually hardly significant details (especially 10-18) is composed into a sequence. When shown in their present context, the details add up to evoke a sense of the presence of some uncontrollable supernatural threat. It is important to note that, although the shots are viewed from increasingly grotesque angles, each separate image would convey only a minute fraction of this highly complex total effect. It is the cumulative result of the whole series of details, seen in the carefully contrived progression, which gives the sequence its powerful appeal.
An entirely different kind of editing composition is exemplified by the following excerpt.
LADY FROM SHANGHAI1 Extract from Reel 2 O'Hara (Orson Welles), a tough, sentimental Irish sailor, gets involved in a fight on behalf of Mrs. Bannister (Rita Hayworth) under circumstances which he suspects were phoney and prearranged by her. Mrs. Bannister asks O'Hara to join her and her husband on a pleasure cruise on her husband's yacht." O'Hara refuses. Next day, Mr. Bannister (Everett Shane), a cripple, who is ** the greatest living criminal lawyer," seeks out O'Hara at a sailors' employment exchange, but O'Hara again refuses to join the cruise. O'Hara and Bannister and some sailors then sit down to a drink, at the end of which Bannister pretends to get drunk and collapses.
The Narrator is O'Hara himself, telling the whole story.
1 Director : Orson Welles. Editor : Viola Lawrence. Columbia, 1948.
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