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Tarlac was particularly interested in the small, one-man harassment craft it carried, and since Hovan had flown one of them in combat several times, his interest was just as intense and far more personal. It took only one close-up look, though, for Tarlac to understand why such tiny craft were so surprisingly effective.
"Russ, I want one or two 'close-up' views in this, so prepare yourself accordingly." "All right," answered the operator, who was talking to Ruth. He put in a fresh reel of film, and adjusted the camera. A "close-up" view, I might explain, is one taken with the person, or subject, very close to the camera, so that it appears very large larger than usual.
Marriage isn't a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. It's a partnership, and what's the good of a partnership if your heart's not in it? It's like collaborating with a man you dislike. . . . I believe you wish sometimes not often, perhaps, but when you're feeling lonely and miserable that I would pester and bludgeon you into marrying me. . . . What's the matter?"
Wherever our attention becomes focused on a special feature, the surrounding adjusts itself, eliminates everything in which we are not interested, and by the close-up heightens the vividness of that on which our mind is concentrated. It is as if that outer world were woven into our mind and were shaped not through its own laws but by the acts of our attention.
It is at the climax of emotion on the stage that the theatergoer likes to use his opera glass in order not to overlook the subtle excitement of the lips and the passion of the eyeballs and the ghastly pupil and the quivering cheeks. The enlargement by the close-up on the screen brings this emotional action of the face to sharpest relief.
But at that they've pared fifteen pounds off him since he's been in the service." "It's a great life," says I. "Maybe," sighs Miss Casey, "but I wisht they'd let me have a close-up of him before they risk loadin' him on a transport. That's all I got against the Government. You ain't thought of any way it might be worked, have you?" I had to admit that I hadn't, not addin' I didn't expect to.
The attention turns to detailed points in the outer world and ignores everything else: the photoplay is doing exactly this when in the close-up a detail is enlarged and everything else disappears. Memory breaks into present events by bringing up pictures of the past: the photoplay is doing this by its frequent cut-backs, when pictures of events long past flit between those of the present.
Back up a little, Pete, so you can 'pam' his approach. I want to get him pulling his burro up past that bank sabe? And the close-up of his face with all those sweat-streaks will prove how far he's come and then I want the detail of that burro and his pack which you'll get as they go by. You see what I mean. Let's see.
The flattery, embellished by a ten-dollar bill, opened a flood-gate of optimism. A camera man was summoned, and the apparatus prepared for some "close-up" motion pictures. Under the weird green lights of the mercury vapor lamps, a director and company of players were busily enacting a dramatic scene, before a studio set.
The boy knew there was an erecting prism in the case, a device that would put the image upright, but it couldn't be used with the camera. Anyway, it wouldn't matter, since the print could be turned over. He studied the faces in the upside-down position. The telescope gave him an even better close-up than at the restaurant.
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