It's a Wonderful Life when George goes to buy a suitcase to escape from Bedford Falls -- where he is destined to remain forever "trapped." A Matter of Life and Death when a table tennis game stops in mid-volley, although characters posed between this life and the next then move normally into the frozen shot (which presumably, therefore, isn't actually a freeze-frame but is possibly preceded and followed by cuts -- I haven't checked); the British TV show Hustle frequently adopts a similar technique when diegetic time is suspended so that con artists, who move through the three-dimensional space of the apparently frozen frame, can share information about details of the crime they are about to commit. And although I can't think of an example, isn't this a relatively common trope to indicate snapshots being taken, typically accompanied by the sound of a shutter clicking and flashbulb popping, as well as a shift to monochrome for the free-frame?
Nigel
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:30:15 +0100
From: "R.L. Armstrong" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Freeze Framing
On May 15 2007, FILM-PHILOSOPHY automatic digest system wrote:
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Can anyone think of a moment in a film when the frame freezes and then the
film restarts, capturing the contrast between motion and motionlessness?
Thank-you for any suggestions...
Richard
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