To calm him down I stop filming, telling the commander my camera is broken.
Just before the assault on the square began, Mr. Chen's commander handed him a camera and 20 rolls of film and told him to wander freely.
An exception jumped up for two nights last winter, when the commander in chief, on camera, sang the opening lines of a Robert Johnson blues standard, "Sweet Home Chicago," and Al Green's R&B ballad "Let's Stay Together" — the kind of songs that used to be called "race music".
Deep underground beneath Aleppo, Syria, a rebel commander speaks to the camera.
The Commander software, which controls the camera, or a network of cameras, is clean and intuitive.
Its commander Admiral William McRaven, once so camera shy, now appeared front and centre on TV.
A police commander, holding his own video camera, gestured to the people trapped in the pen.
"I operated a periscopic TV camera so the commander, Anatoly Artsebarsky, could establish where we were heading.
In one scene in Timbuktu, a young recruit is coached through an appearance on camera by his commander, who is as finicky as any auteur.
Looking at a close-up view available from Dr. Parazynski's helmet camera, Pamela A. Melroy, the commander of the space shuttle Discovery's current mission, said, "Sounds like you have some surgery to do, Dr. Parazynski".
