Film Studies Daily Log

Monday, September 27

We finished our analysis of motifs in Shadow of a Doubt with a final look at young Charlie's descent of the staircase with Uncle Charlie's ring on her hand.

Mr. P introduced D.W. Griffith (whom we met earlier as director of The Girl and Her Trust), and stressed his unique influence upon practically every director who followed him.  We watched the famous scenes in the storm and on the ice floes from Way Down East, and analyzed briefly the three-component cross-cutting which gives the ice floe scene its power.