A thin yellow rope separated the cameras from a backdrop of oily car parts and hydraulic lifts.
Each has a Scherzo propelled, at first, by pizzicato writing and an Adagio in which a singing string theme (for the cello in the first, the viola in the second) rises from a backdrop of dark piano chords.
He peers at us from a backdrop so rich in gloom that it might as well be the nether depths of Hell — which, for anyone wishing to pinpoint Rochester's current location, remains the most plausible place to begin.
Friedrich was instrumental in transforming landscape in art from a backdrop subordinated to human drama to a self-contained emotive subject.
The characters had thick strings, papier mâché heads and a looping walk, but Anderson compensated for this lack of sophistication by using innovative film-making techniques such as cuts and close-ups not previously seen in puppet series, as well as marionettes being operated from an overhead bridge rather than from behind a backdrop.
Captain Haddock, for instance, is constantly visited by delirious memories of his Marlinspike residence: bowler-hatted figures and balding servitors pop up from behind a backdrop of the Himalayas to sing, to Orlando Gough's music, of the green grass of home.
Underlying pre-tax profit fell 10% to £277m and the supermarket cut its interim dividend to 3.6p a share from 4p a year earlier against a backdrop of what Coupe said were "challenging market conditions".
Twelve vocalists recite or sing quotations from Henry David Thoreau against a backdrop of flashing images and the sounds of wind, rain, and thunder.
This morning, on CNN, live from Parkland, Florida, with a backdrop of squad cars parked behind a yellow slash of barricade tape, a reporter interviewed David Hogg, who is a seventeen-year-old senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where, the day before, he survived a shooting that left seventeen people dead.
It's true that the same vanlife pictures get taken over and over: the van's back doors opening onto an ocean vista; a long-exposure nighttime shot of the van, cozy and lit from within, against a backdrop of stars; a woman on the van's roof, in the middle of a sun salutation.
City Island is set in the small fishing community, a part of the Bronx that feels remote from New York City, providing a backdrop for a family story where each member has something to hide.
