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Allan Scott has 0 writing credits in the Nutevio catalogue.
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Allan Scott has 0 writing credits in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are visual style, rewatchability, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.
Scott set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
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Fred Astaire
Actor
4 shared titles · Swing Time

Ginger Rogers
Actor
4 shared titles · Swing Time

Pandro S. Berman
Producer
4 shared titles · Swing Time

Helen Broderick
Actor
2 shared titles · Swing Time

Eric Blore
Actor
2 shared titles · Swing Time
David Abel
Director of Photography
2 shared titles · Swing Time

Dr. Seuss
Screenplay
2 shared titles · The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

Irving Berlin
Original Music Composer
2 shared titles · Top Hat

Mark Sandrich
Director
2 shared titles · Top Hat
Dwight Taylor
Screenplay
2 shared titles · Top Hat
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