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Nov. 1, 1960: BE ON THE ALERT for strangers in bars who offer to bet $25 or $5 that if Candidate A (or B) is elected that three days later the banks will be closed and there will be troops in the streets. Naturally. It'll be Veterans Day, Matt Weinstock says. DEAR ABBY: I am a college student. Last year I met a student who attends another college. We were strongly attracted to each other. I sent him my picture, signed "Love, forever." He came to see me many times. We got very serious and then I heard… Also on the jump, an interview with Buster Keaton…. |
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Buster is a personal favorite of mine. He actually used title cards in the silent films he controlled as props which projected suspense to anticipated resolutions. When a title would quote a character asking a question the audience knew the answer to, a brief build-up would follow with Buster giving the answer, in ways we could either see or not see, leaving it to the next title card to end the suspense and relieve the audience from wondering how he would answer the question.
I don’t know of another filmmaker clever enough to use title cards in this manner. Toward the end of the silent era, filmmakers began to experiment with ways to avoid using title cards altogether, using silence and the lack of dialogue in ways that FW Murneau, for example, achieved in the great 1927 “Sunrise”.
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