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...provides more than the title; he is responsible for the film's unique point of view. There is no editing in the formal sense. In the field the cameraman must pan from face to face to cover a scene and use his zoom for close-ups. Tracking shots are handheld, often on the run. Sequences end when the cameraman decides to shut off -- or when he runs out of film. We see MoPic only fleetingly, when, for laughs or in a final desperate moment, his comrades turn his camera...
...stage, and, as Frank, mouthing the same song on the roof of a building, as if the hard-luck lyrics were straight reportage of what's below him. Because there's no plot or dialogue to speak of, almost everything is conveyed by symbol--the three characters, the handheld lamp which focuses the audience's attention on his face, the bathtub that Frank sings in at the movie's end, in his only onstage appearance...
...standard IBM PC, are controlled by entering commands letter by letter on the computer's typewriter-like keyboard. The Mac, by contrast, uses artful screen displays to create the visual illusion of a desktop littered with objects and documents that can be selected and manipulated with a "mouse," a handheld pointing device...
...clearly, however, made use of a great many montage techniques in piecing together the various parts of the footage: part in color, part in black and white, part in Super 8 and part in 16mm. There is plenty of quick, handheld camera work, following the Stones through corridors and dressing rooms and fending its way through crowds...
...Kinross gold-mine disaster a fortnight ago. On a soccer field near the scene of the accident, where 3,000 miners had assembled for the ceremony, several hundred black protesters surrounded the pulpit. One man, a steward of the black National Union of Mineworkers, shouted through a handheld loudspeaker, "We are not going to pray with whites today. We've never been allowed to pray with whites. We'll have our own rites." Soon the field was filled with marching miners, who were joined by hundreds of people from the stands. The ministers leading the service ignored the disturbance...