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R/Greenberg's elegant opening sequence
to the movie NIGHT FALLS ON MANHATTAN uses
old and new film technology to create a seamless
visual overture.
By Peter Hall
The stark, two-minute animation is strangely
moody and nostalgic: A series of blue vertical
paint stripes descend on a black screen to a mel-
low trumpet and piano score. Each stripe ends
its journey halfway down the screen, leaving a
distinctive black space unpainted. After three
or four stripes have rolled, the scene reveals
itself: the blue is the negative space—the sky
above the buildings of Manhattan.
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