Watch The Gay Shoe Clerk

This film is often noted as an early example of the interpolated close-up. However, while the action moves smoothly across the shots, attentive viewers will notice a remarkable set of discontinuities. The woman's underskirts are white in the close up but dark in the long shot. The shot in the cross-cutting is not really a close up in the conventional sense, in any event, for the leg is isolated against a plain white background.