Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want people to be angry; I want them to get up and do something," he says. This goal sometimes causes TV Nation to veer from satire toward simpleminded didacticism. At the end of a NAFTA segment in which Moore visits American plants that have shifted operations to Mexico, the camera pans over a shantytown. In his narration Moore bemoans the fact that U.S. leaders said NAFTA "would build a better life for all Mexicans." Did anyone ever say that decades of poverty would be eradicated within eight months of the passage of a trade agreement...
...film history. She enters Jeffries' apartment, coming down a small flight of entrance stairs. We see her in her full glory, a chiffon A-line flouncy dress appliqued with fronds which emerge gracefully from the waste band. She slowly and gracefully takes off her wrap and walks towards the camera, leaning in toward Stewart. Suddenly the angle turns and shows Kelly bending toward Stewart who is seated in his wheelchair. In slow motion, their lips touch. The camera returns to regular speed as she lifts her lips from his and whispers to him, her lips-sticked lips resisting with amazing...
These strong scenes, however, are disrupted by the occasional vignette that does not fit in with the rest. For example, a few of the lengthy computer animations and camera pans of inanimate objects bear a strong resemblance to Sesame Street scenes. Accompanied by a fugue or well-chosen cantata, these vignettes aim at artistry, but instead seem to be trying too hard. The visual images are not arresting enough to match the cerebral music that Gould worked so hard to create...
Dimbleby captured Charles talking to residents of a decrepit public-housing project in Birmingham and mixing with unemployed young people attending a training program in Norfolk funded by one of his charitable trusts. He was also shown as an intrepid foreign traveler. On camera he projected an awkward charm, both endearing and genuine. In a Bedouin tent on the edge of the Arabian desert, he sipped camel's milk from a plastic cup. In Mexico he picked at a gooey plate of lamb. "I always dread having something like that," he said, "in case it is laced with chilies, which...
...factory, walking through a deserted mill with endless rows of silent weaving machines. As a German television crew watched, he delivered one of his patented anti-Western tirades. "This factory stands idle because of Western interference in our affairs!" he shouted, shaking his finger directly at the German camera. "You have worked to ruin this country...