4 From Sow's Ear To Silk Purse Creative Victories Through Limitation

DOI: 10.4324/9781003286639-5

Thus far we’ve observed an evolution during various transitional periods where changes took place that moved artists from A to B, all in the name of better storytelling, allowing them to find and refine ways of better cinematic expression, always moving, it would seem (just like a determined protagonist in a movie) around some kind of obstacle – or limitation – in the way. And as we saw time and again, these innovations greatly impacted filmmaking, often not just on a set in that immediate moment, but also down the long road to this very moment, from the introduction of synch sound recording leading to Dorothy Arzner's invention of the boom pole ...

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