Visible crew/equipment: When Joan jumps on the train, there is a shot looking down at her. The shadow of the camera can be seen.
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11th Jul 2022
Jewel of the Nile (1985)
11th Jul 2022
Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Visible crew/equipment: When Joan and Omar arrive in his country on a helicopter, film lights are visible in the glass of the helicopter.
9th Jul 2022
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Visible crew/equipment: At the beginning when the mysterious man is at Joan's door, the manager tells him to get away from the door. The camera moves closer to the bad guy. A piece of equipment produces a shadow on the manager's back.
13th May 2022
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
Visible crew/equipment: Esther Williams gets out of the pool briefly but jumps back in. As she's climbing out of the pool, the camera backs up and a piece of film equipment is briefly in the shot lower left.
13th May 2022
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Visible crew/equipment: The camera and a boom mic are visible in the police car lights in the scene directly following the first accident with Doc Ock.
6th May 2022
9-1-1: Lone Star (2020)
Prince Albert in a Can - S3-E11
Visible crew/equipment: When the crew is searching the meth house, the camera shows a table full of it and the shot moves upward toward the crew. A significant camera shadow becomes visible on the wall.
6th May 2022
Enemy of the State (1998)
Visible crew/equipment: When the truck flips after the "jar" is blown up, a rig that the truck is on can be seen moving left frame.
29th Apr 2022
Unhinged (2020)
Visible crew/equipment: Before the tablet conversation, the camera car is reflected multiple times in the Volvo, particularly the rear of the vehicle.
2nd Apr 2022
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
Visible crew/equipment: In the dugout of the final game versus the Indians, the two women come over to talk to Frank Sinatra about Kelly. The scene pulls back and a very obvious camera shadow lingers on Sinatra.
15th Mar 2022
The Dead Pool (1988)
Visible crew/equipment: When the first car gets blown up by the remote control vehicle, stunt wires are visible coming out of it to aid in the explosion effect.
15th Mar 2022
The Dead Pool (1988)
Visible crew/equipment: When Callahan is fighting the two bodyguards on the dock, the camera pans down as one falls and its shadow is visible on his back.
15th Mar 2022
The Dead Pool (1988)
Visible crew/equipment: Near the beginning after they pull Harry's shot up car upright, there is a shot with a bunch of shadows on the vehicle. One of them is the camera operator and you can see the outline of it.
2nd Mar 2022
Vegas Vacation (1997)
Visible crew/equipment: When Christie Brinkley is keeping pace with Clark in her sports car, the camera vehicle is reflected in the passenger side window of her car. It's not the Griswold's minivan.
1st Mar 2022
The Fugitive (1993)
Visible crew/equipment: The camera filming the wide shot of the press conference with the US Marshals and Chicago PD blends in with the rest of the camera crews there doing the conference. It is blatantly visible behind everyone asking questions. The angle from this camera is used at least twice. You can identify it by its film magazine. Almost all news organizations in the 1990s used video tape as opposed to film, so a film camera used during a press conference would and does stick out like a sore thumb.
18th Feb 2022
Ozark (2017)
Let the Great World Spin - S4-E2
Visible crew/equipment: Marty visits the FBI agent at her home. The camera starts far away from them in another room, and pushes in through the door frame. On the left side of the frame, the camera's shadow becomes very obvious as the shot moves.
12th Feb 2022
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Visible crew/equipment: At the tree lot when the drug dealer grabs Riggs, the shadow of the camera is visible on his chest.
31st Jan 2022
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Visible crew/equipment: Right before Munro is attacked by Magua and killed, there is a shot of a soldier falling right toward the camera. The shadow of the camera becomes very obvious on him.
22nd Jan 2022
The Truman Show (1998)
Visible crew/equipment: Right as Truman is leaving to go to Fiji in the sedan, he backs out of the driveway. The shot is a camera attached to the rear of the vehicle. The rig is reflected in the bumper on both sides of the license plate.
7th Dec 2021
The Santa Clause (1994)
Visible crew/equipment: Near the beginning right when we see Charlie in the back of the car, the camera shadow creeps onto the vehicle as its moving.
13th Nov 2021
Jurassic Park (1993)
Visible crew/equipment: When Dr. Grant discovers the eggs in the wild, the camera comes down a tad bit too far. The operator obviously notices because the shadow of the camera creeps in along with the shadow of wires attached to it. To correct this, the shot pans up a bit.
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