dollying
- present participle of dolly.
Example Sentences
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The speech is executed in one take, with the camera dollying side to side as well as forward and backward, to capture all of Wright’s beats.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
The camera stays still for the most part, dollying in a bit now and again, panning with robotic precision to take in a vista.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2017
The camera is shaking, shifting, rolling, zooming, dollying, fragmenting his performance to the point where it's pulverized, like a mirror broken into a thousand tiny pieces and then crushed into powder.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2011
And some are quick visual puns, taking place in the corner of the frame or with the camera dollying past them, not seeming to care whether you catch them or not.
From Time Magazine Archive
In dollying it generally pays to burn the stone, as so much labour in crushing is thus saved.
From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by Johnson, J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances)
