Word: tripodic
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...deadly debut during Tet. It fires a self-propelled warhead that can demolish a small build ing or blow up a bunker at a range of five miles. The 107 has about l½ times the striking power of a 75-mm. cannon, but it weighs-rocket, launcher, tripod and all-only about 200 lbs. v. 1,270 for a 75-mm.-pack howitzer...
Warhol, it seems, was filming Blow Job for its full half hour. The film's one shot is from a camera locked on its tripod and zoomed in to the face of a man the collar of whose leather jacket is turned up and who, we are led to believe by the title, is getting a blow job. There is no sound...
Ultimately Chappaqua's integrity derives from still-photographer Robert Frank's color camera. Though filming took over three years, proceeding slowly on Rooks' capricious shooting schedule, Franks preserves a consistent style of juxtaposing hand-held and tripod based shots, creating, then shattering continuity in order to disorient the viewer. The camera follows Harwick into an airplane bathroom, pries closer to watch him sniff cocaine, then finds itself too close--a scant inch from his dissipated bleary-eyed face as he turns to leave the bathroom; he approaches the camera, virtually menacing the lens, and Franks cuts away to another scene...
...obvious but successful reminder that her surface can never really be animated or her enigma cracked. She is completely and very dangerously a virgin, whatever she does. The black cowled, nunlike presence which dominates the gothic dining room turns out to be her hooded photograph on a tripod. The eye socket of a black cowled skull in another room is the scareb ring's proper resting place, a fact which informs Hunter's close-ups on her eyeball. The only violence done the lady in the course of the picture is a systematic stabbing of her photograph, a truly shocking...
...cycle to Impala hill. Kinsey had intended to take his camera equipment along to photograph birds and wild life, but, as it was so late in the afternoon, he left it behind. The iron bar in the picnic basket, he said, was simply a part of his camera tripod accessory that he had overlooked...