Los Tres Garcia (1947)
directed by Ismael Rodriguez
cinematography by Ross Fisher
The three dueling cousins had a hit comedy films with this one. Slapstick coupled with singing is a winning formula. The best scene shows the cousins, all three longing after the blonde, sitting silently while singing harmonious love songs in their hearts that only we can hear on the soundtrack.
This isn't a very high quality video which is very unfortunate because there is a lot of gorgeous camera work at play here; lots of deep focus photography as well as traveling shots. The most spectacular effect is a backwards tracking from a medium shot at the front of a church that pulls away, takes a different angle and continues to a wide shot from the back of the church. Most of the people moving into camera view are so smooth that I didn't even notice the complexity until the final long shot.
But all you get are these two pictures.
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