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During the conferences [with David Selznick] which followed I remember there were times when there seemed to be a kind of grim reason in Mr Selznick\u2019s criticisms\u2013surely here perhaps there was a fault in \u201ccontinuity,\u201d I hadn\u2019t properly \u201cestablished\u201d this or that. I would forget momentarily the lesson which I had learned as a film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[290,178,415],"class_list":["post-8622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-all-of-life-is-a-choice-of-genre","tag-expressionism-is-realism","tag-greeneland"],"yoast_head":"\n
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