The Unchanging Sea (1910) Clip 9 - Tsivian_Khitrova.mp4 0-25.01
12024-10-27T23:56:38+00:00Lauren Spencer76c11959bcfe0e5810c50b96203136d0472cfcb733692plain2024-10-28T00:54:23+00:00entext/plainYuri Tsivian/Daria Khitrovabac65b0132faabaa39d1d97ab053c98751265df9Lauren Spencer76c11959bcfe0e5810c50b96203136d0472cfcb7Eileen Bower observes: “The eternal theme of women waiting for the fishermen who went out to sea was widely popular in literature and films, and was used several times by Biograph (After Many Years, Lines of White on a Sullen Sea, Enoch Arden). As in those films, The Unchanging Sea intercuts the shots of the waiting woman with shots of the faraway husband, maintaining the link between them for a lifetime of waiting. When a new suitor comes to her, the woman shakes her head and points out to sea. In the next shot her husband, on the opposite side of the screen from her, looks out to sea, still puzzled by his memory loss, perhaps feeling a stirring in his mind. In the foreground of a shot on the beach, a young man proposes to their grown daughter, a key moment in their lives: yet the waiting wife’s back is turned to them and to the camera, while she searches the empty sea. In the next shot, on the faraway shore, her husband prepares to return to the sea, the action that will lead him home again. Griffith has found images that meet the words of the Kingsley poem: he has, in effect, set them to music” (TGP 4:70).
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12024-10-27T07:22:51+00:00Lauren Spencer76c11959bcfe0e5810c50b96203136d0472cfcb7Clip 9. The Unchanging Sea (1910).1plain2024-10-27T07:22:51+00:00Lauren Spencer76c11959bcfe0e5810c50b96203136d0472cfcb7