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To make this technique work in one film, John Arnold designed a dolly with four independent wheels. A long tracking shot that uses this technique begins at an organ keyboard and moves outside to a carriage in 1931’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In one film, use of this technique ends when a San Quentin escapee wakes up to a plastic surgeon unwrapping bandages from his face. RKO balked on financing Orson Welles’ script for an anti-fascist adaptation of (*) Heart of Darkness built on this technique. The Bogart vehicle Dark Passage begins with 36 minutes of this technique. This technique is used for almost every shot of Robert Montgomery’s adaptation of The Lady in the Lake. For 10 points, mirrors sometimes appear in what kind of shot to show the protagonist’s face? ■END■
ANSWER: point of view shot [or POV shot or first-person shot; accept subjective shot; accept descriptions of a shot from the view of a character] (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dark Passage, and The Lady in the Lake all use the POV mirror trick.)
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