The Age of Innocence - Opening Scene

Opening scene of "The Age of Innocence" (Scorsese, 1991) From Scorsese on Scorsese, ed. 2003, p.186/7: "I wanted to give [the scene] more of an edge, so that it would be more important when the camera finally stops and you see Ellen slipping into the box. We devised a way of doing it through a kind of stop-action photography where we just took one frame at a time and then panned. But Michael Ballhaus thought that would be too fast, so I suggested I could print each frame three times. Then in the editing it was still too choppy for me, so finally we decided to dissolve between each set of three frames. I settled on that effect because I saw how you began to notice people, with the glitter of their jewellery, and then this incredible woman appears in a blue dress, and the blue is very different from what everyone else is wearing." This clip is part of the serial essay "Apotheoses of Martin Scorsese" http://www.alphavillle.com/avillle/zo... (Dutch; English translation is in preparation).