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Killer of Sheep : Opening Sequence

A boy is yelled at by his father for failing to protect his younger brother.

Opening Sequence

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close-up, disjunctive editing, dolly out, fade-in, fade-out, framing, lighting, match on action, medium shot, music, nondiegetic, opening sequence, over the shoulder shot, shot/reverse shot, sound lag, two-shot, voice-off

Diversity in Media Representation

Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male

"Opening Sequence " in Killer of Sheep. Directed by Charles Burnett, Milestone FIlms, 1978, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1799

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