Nosferatu -con anotaciones de murnau

Nosferatu
Act I
[Script by Henrik Galeen; F.W. Murnau's annotations in boldface.]
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|(Scene 1) |8 meters location shot: Wismar |
|Fade in. |Townscape. |
||View over the roofs of a small old-fashioned town built in the style of the 1840s. The sun |
| |shines peacefully on pointed gables and leafy squares. |
|Fade-out. |[Two shots, one from the church tower onto the town] the other from the harbor over towards the|
||town. |
| |1st: view of Lübeck |
| |Dissolve to harbor of Wismar. |
|Scene [2] 3|4 meters 2x |
|Fade-in. |There are flowers in green window-boxes. On the window sill a kitten is playing in the morning |
|Outside a window. |sun. With graceful movements she tries to catch a ball that dangles from a thread. Now the ball|
||is being pulled in through the window. The cat jumps in after it. |
|Scene [3] 4 |Ellen's sitting room 7 meters 2x |
|[Small neat kitchen] |The morning sun casts the shadow of a window frame onto the floor. Ellen, by the window, is |
||pulling in the thread with the ball, the cat follows it with a leap. Then she puts the little |
| |animal on her arm. Playing with it she sits down on the window sill bathed in sunshine and |
| |looks out dreamily. She squats on the floor opposite the animal and plays with it. Her dressing|
| |gownmoves in the breeze, her big childlike eyes are laughing. |
|Scene [4] 3a |20 meters Hutter . white jabot . blue waist coat |
| |[Poor looking and tidy. A bed], a chair in period style. Hutter is standing in front of the |
| |mirror. Heis about to put his jacket on. He pauses to listen, takes a look through the side |
| |window. Smiling happily he finishes dressing and goes out. |
|4a A small flower garden [in |Shot from above. Hutter appears, gardening knife in hand, looks up beaming with joy. He finds a|
|front of Hutter's house]. |clump ofcarnations, cuts the flowers with a quick gesture and makes a bouquet. |
|Scene 5 |Ellen's room 18 meters 2x |
|(The small kitchen) |Ellen, still playing with the kitten, hears Hutter coming and jumps up. |
|[Shot of cooker. |Ellen comes over andbegins to busy herself with the sauce pans, with a childlike earnestness |
| |towards her housewifely duties.] |
|Shot of door: |Hutter is standing in the door-way and laughs and laughs; hiding the bouquet behind his back, |
| |he laughs and laughs....