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Listen to native speakers pronounce “motion picture camera” in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.
parts of that grammar, cross-cuts, fades, point of view shots, even a close-up, they all had to be invented.They weren't there at the beginning. And so the motion picture camera was invented around 1890. And for a long time, for a number of years, the typical shot was what's calledthe proscenium arch shot, which is to say as if the camera were set in amid the audience, looking up at the action taking place on stage.