The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

5.x18 The Fighting Lady

At this distance, the landscape looks abstract, like a miniature, becoming recognizable only when the bombs explode below. Reinforcing the sense of strangeness, narrator Robert Taylor describes the camerawork as inhuman: these cameras record, “as no human eye or memory could record, just what our guns and bombs do to the enemy.” The sequence is hypnotic and oddly beautiful—until you recall that each shot is a real document of real destruction.

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