Word: hand-held
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...history of the making of the film is testimony to its degree of truthfulness. Dogan made the film on a paltry budget, with one hand-held camera. The finished version includes one out of every 1.2 feet of film Dogan shot; most feature-length productions shoot at a ratio of 10 to 1 or greater. Although Dry Summer was put together in only three months, using mostly peasants for the cast, Dogan was able to produce an outstanding document of an underdeveloped country's rural life...
...light antitank weapon), a hand-held bazooka-type rocket that weighs only...
Gospel According to St. Matthew. A far cry from the Hollywood Bible epics: immediate, made so by Pasolini's simplicity of setting and action, and his effective use of hand-held cameras and non-professional actors. Pasolini preserves the words of the gospel; his Marxism does not show through...
Paths tested Kubrick's seriousness and showed off his developing cinematic abilities. Swirling tracking-shots caught military decorum and ballroom grace, and Kubrick's own hand-held fieldwork surpasses, in its sense of messy, forced kineticism, anything in All Quiet On the Western Front...
Emschwiller launched into his film with little introduction. Green and white blurs of a suburb, taken from a light airplane with a hand-held camera, shot across the screen and dissolved into a view of a city street. Picking out people, holding them for fifteen seconds as they walked towards the camera, freezing them, and then fading out, Emschwiller introduced his cast of players. Two of them, both women, one moody and loving, one stable but loveless, became the film's epicenters, while scenes of a nude in dance interrupted the story at intervals. As the film progressed, the nude...