Word: telephotoed
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...VIRTUE of The Damned is that it accepts the devices which make current film-making flabby: the zoom and the telephoto lens, artificially colored lighting, freely structured compositions, and long takes. Then it shows what a man with guts, who teants to make this picture, can do with these techniques...
...techniques, about which he knows more than a thousand Peter Yateses, in a way that gives them some meaning. He builds a strong narrative with character development-ponderous and inevitable, but development all the same. His zooms are extra-ordinarily solid in framing and speed. His telephoto panning shots, for example in the birthday-party sequence, have the selective impact of cuts from person to person...
...static frame. One continually rediscovered the composition's different elements as the people in the shot moved and talked. Finally, Warhol began to zoom and pan, giving people an appearance entirely different from the hard-edged definition of the preceding films. The collapsing of background and foreground typical of telephoto shots gives his latest films a different kind of unity, based on skin textures and whole-frame tonal consistency...
...Bachrach-on-an-off-day portraits of the delegates, candidates, and hangers-on that are tenuously related to anything only by the banalities Duncan wrote to accompany his photos. These portraits are really little more than testimonials to the sharpness of a new lens, a prototype 400 mm. f/6.3 telephoto made by Ernst Leitz for the Mexico City Olympics. The lens really is fantastic; things are pretty bad, though, when the most praiseworthy thing about a series of photos is their sharpness...
...trees in the empty vastness of Pedernales country. He is only a fleeting presence, a blurred picture, a voiceless phantom. He has granted only one interview, a session with CBS' Walter Cronkite before the Apollo II launch, reportedly for a five-figure fee. He is seen only in telephoto glimpses: walking practically unnoticed on the University of Texas campus, going into the Johnson City Bank for a chat with A. W. Moursund, his old friend and business partner. He turns up horseback riding on the ranch, inspecting his herd of Herefords, watching a cattle sale at the Round Mountain...