Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accessories Extra. In San Francisco, Edward T. Adkins, who had equipped his car with a magazine rack, movie camera, electric torch and drill and an airplane steering gear, was stopped for driving without license plates...
After that came elephant-hunting for the films, and one job for the camera that not even the author can understate. The stunt: to shoot a lion as he leaped at the hunter from ten yards or less...
...rounded up about a dozen dramatics students to act out the accident, and he had taken motion pictures of it from four different angles. For one sequence, the camera was behind the driver's seat, as the car moved down Ann Arbor's Monroe Street, sideswiping a pedestrian who stepped out from behind a parked car. The other shots showed what witnesses would have seen from the sidewalks. For the trial, the driver and witnesses saw only the sequences that applied to them. The student lawyers had to prepare their briefs without seeing the movies...
...screen, Funt merely adds a hidden camera and proceeds as before. He pretends to be a hideously amateurish barber or an irreducibly bureaucratic clerk ("You got that filled out wrong, Miss"). Because the camera is stationary and the lighting natural, the scenes are crude by studio standards. But such disadvantages are more than compensated by what the audience sees and hears. Funt is a highly resourceful ad-libber, and his victims are life itself about as pure as the screen can ever catch...
...writes like a movie camera. Says Evelyn Waugh, of his books: "It is as though, out of an infinite length of film, sequences had been cut . . . The writer has become director and producer. Indeed, the affinity to the film is everywhere apparent." Several of his books (e.g., The Ministry of Fear, Brighton Rock) have been transmogrified into movies-and one (The Power and the Glory) bowdlerized into Beauty, Hollywood style (as The Fugitive...