You know on TV when there’s an explosion or earthquake or something, they shake the camera around so you, the home viewer, can experience it too. I tell ya when that picture starts shaking it’s like I’m right there with them. It’s sort of a fast jitter, if it was a wave it would be high frequency and low amplitude. But I notice today as I’m watching Hogan’s Heroes after work, as you do, that the camera shake in the 60’s was different.
Hogan and Carter were rescuing Newkirk while leBeau and Kinch were blowing up the ammo dump and they all met up just as the explosions started. The camera shake was not the jittery side-to-side or round and round action we are used to, it was a slower up and down motion like the rocking of a small boat. And I must say I was not at all convinced. I did not for a moment feel I was part of a cheeky, international rag-tag group of smart-ass prisoners who had just captured a beautiful Gestapo spy, rescued an annoying Cockney and blown up an ammo dump with road flares taped to an alarm clock.
You can put away the strudel, Sgt. Shultz won’t be stopping in. Because if you can’t trust the camera shake then maybe, just maybe, none of it is real.
Hey! I Dream of Jeannie is on next!
Hogan and Carter were rescuing Newkirk while leBeau and Kinch were blowing up the ammo dump and they all met up just as the explosions started. The camera shake was not the jittery side-to-side or round and round action we are used to, it was a slower up and down motion like the rocking of a small boat. And I must say I was not at all convinced. I did not for a moment feel I was part of a cheeky, international rag-tag group of smart-ass prisoners who had just captured a beautiful Gestapo spy, rescued an annoying Cockney and blown up an ammo dump with road flares taped to an alarm clock.
You can put away the strudel, Sgt. Shultz won’t be stopping in. Because if you can’t trust the camera shake then maybe, just maybe, none of it is real.
Hey! I Dream of Jeannie is on next!
