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SOLUTION:

This puzzle is a series of movie screen shots. The first step is to identify as many of the movies as possible. One thing that should make this task easier is that several of the movies are from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series.

After identifying the movies, the question is then what to do with them. With enough of the scenes identified, watching the various movies should reveal that the screenshots all occur just before or soon after a character explodes or falls to their death or is otherwise scared witless. The key is to listen to the audio of the movies -- each screenshot is near a distinctive screaming noise. This scream is known as the Wilhelm Scream and is used as a subtle calling card by several Hollywood sound people. Identifying whether the screenshot is before or after the scream and taking the corresponding first or last letter of the movie name spells out a clue phrase:

(-: before, +:after)

##+/-lettermovie
01+4Lethal Weapon 4
02-TToy Story
03-HHercules
04-TTitanic
05-IIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
06-TTwo Towers
07+LKill Bill
08+EStar Wars 1: The Phantom Menace
09+SPlanet Of The Apes
10-OOsmosis Jones
11-UUnder the Tuscan Sun
12+NAladdin
13-DDante's Peak
14+DConfessions of a Dangerous Mind
15-EEmpire Strikes Back
16-SSalton Sea
17-IIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade
18+GJust Visiting
19+NTears Of The Sun
20+EDie Hard With A Vengeance
21-RRaiders of the Lost Ark
22-CCharge At Feather River
23-HHollywood Boulevard
24-RReservoir Dogs
25+IReturn of the Jedi
26-SStar Wars

The clue phrase is 4TH TITLE SOUND DESIGNER CHRIS.
The 4th title is Titanic.
The sound designer for Titanic was Chris Boyes.
The answer is BOYES.

NOTES:

Answer: BOYES