And what a formidable beast that camera is: as big as a motorbike but far less streamlined, bearing on its broad flank the legend "VistaVision" — the wide-screen format in which Hitchcock also shot "To Catch a Thief" (1955), "The Man who Knew Too Much" (1956), and "Vertigo" (1958).
At the Regina Mundi church in Soweto, there was standing room only at the 9am mass, as hundreds of worshippers and a formidable number of camera crews packed the aisles to hear Father Sebastian Rossouw describe Mandela as a guiding light for the nation.
Yes armed with a camera -- and Mary, a formidable weapon in her own right.
The controllers worked at two tiers of equipment-laden consoles, facing a wall covered with a formidable array of monitors that bore such legends as "houston," "houston pool," "videograph," "camera 1," "camera 2," and "camera 6".
"He's a formidable candidate".
That was a formidable problem.
"You are a formidable couple.
They made a formidable team.
"It was a formidable assignment".
He is a formidable networker.
