I knew what you meant lol! Thanks! I’m not a film or literary critic. I just love good entertainment!
Oh, geez, I hope I didn’t sound like I “think” I’m a film critic — I’m not. But, I do live in LA where talk of something about film, or stars or whatever is probably mentioned every day.
Anyway that biography of Ford was so wonderful — his absolute love for John Wayne; shooting on location in Utah — said he had to get away from the “studio; and many, many scenes from our favorite films. Viewing it enhanced my enjoyment of old Westerns.
On that horizon line - I think the opening of The Searchers was the example. It is a view of a singular man on horseback some mile or so away riding across the screen left to right where the sky takes up at least 3/4 of the screen above him and about 1/4 of “dirt” at the bottom. He was the first to have done that and it is gorgeous. He taught that to Spielberg but I’ve never really looked into how Spielberg used it. (See I’m not much of a critic or I would have - right?)