Frame By Frame: Deep Focus

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Film Professor Wheeler Winston Dixon digs into the history of "deep focus," a cinematic technique in which objects in the foreground, middle-ground and deep background are all in focus at the same time.

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Wheeler Winston Dixon is an awesome name for a film professor.

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Fantastic analysis in Citizen Kane and good explanation of deep focus.

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Or the wedding scene in Best Years in Our Lives (also DPd by Toland) when we see Fred and Peggy looking at each other while the wedding is going on.

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@Ironicusz It's a technique because one person might utilize differently than someone else, and to create a different effect. Like you say, it's something you control and not something that just naturally happens.

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No mention of Mr. James Wong Howe?