When the show came back from commercial, Ferguson would lunge into the shot, slap the camera like it was his old pal, like you at home watching on TV were his best mate, declare "It's a great day for America everybody!" – to him, it was always a great day for America, even when that day had been genuinely shit – and then begin to rattle off whatever was on his mind.
Friedlaender steadies his quivering weapon, takes aim, then slaps the camera on the leviathan's back.
At one moment, after Georges slaps Anne, the camera cuts away from the aggrieved characters.
It turns out her mother, Meryl Streep, whose taut and shiny countenance seems to be constantly threatening to tear away from its many seams and slap right into the camera, agrees with me.
(Denis cuts from Isabelle's gauzy, dreamlike, post-coital rapture to the actor's slap-like declaration, into the camera, as if from Isabelle's point of view, that he thinks they shouldn't have rushed into a sexual relationship).
The exception, of course, is the fingerprint sensor slap-bang next to the camera lens.
The moment Eric McCormack walks onto the screen, casts a coy half-smile, half-smirk at the camera and slaps on a clown-size pair of black-framed glasses, you know you're seeing something special.
Basically: Snap your iPhone (or other, similarly sized camera) in, slap the marker somewhere on your person (or hold it), hit record, and the Swivl will twist and turn to keep you in the shot.
Imagine not cracking as the camera zooms in on your freshly slapped face.
The new Panasonic GH5 camera comes with a 20mpx Four Thirds sensor, coupled with five-axis image stabilization built right into the camera body, meaning that any lens you slap on it becomes image stabilized.
"He was propped up, slapped a couple of times across the face, then turned toward the camera.
