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angle shot

noun

, Movies, Photography.
  1. a picture taken with the camera pointed obliquely at the subject, sometimes causing distortion of perspective and proportion.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of angle shot1

First recorded in 1935–40

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Example Sentences

We have the ones we took coming in; what we want is a wide-angle shot.

Before it could fall, I had my Solar out and, with a wide-angle shot, burned the contract to ashes.

The wide-angle shot dissipated the power, but it did include all of them.

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