Round 8: Tossup 9

After a man examines a broken clock, this film cuts from him saying “I must find something honorable” to a close-up on a train’s wheels. This film pivots temporally via a close-up on a business card labelled “Chicago, Illinois.” This film lingers on a shot of a blue sky to transition away from a scene after a man dressed in all black says, “God be with you.” In a J-cut by this film’s editor Anne V. Coates, the loud rings of trolley bells in a busy street overwhelm the faint sound of a man shouting “who are you?” over a close-up on this film’s protagonist. The sounds of alarm bells are heard after the laughs of men huddled around a (*) pistol used for an execution that this film’s protagonist later regretfully says he “enjoyed.” This film cuts to a slow zoom out on a bust of the protagonist from a shot of goggles hanging in a tree, revealing his death in a motorcycle crash. For 10 points, (10[2])what film cuts (10[1])from a close-up on the title character blowing out a match to a Wadi Rum desert sunrise? ■END■

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