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  2. Flower Power (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    It had an influential effect on both the antiwar movement of the sixties, and as a visual representation of how photojournalism can help with a movement. [8] Specific exhibits and discussions have been curated solely around the photograph to display the political, cultural and social aspects of the Flower Power movement.

  3. Gun barrel sequence - Wikipedia

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    The gun barrel sequence as it appears in Dr.No (1962). The gun barrel sequence is a signature device featured in nearly every James Bond film. [1] Shot from the point of view of a presumed assassin, it features James Bond walking, turning, and then shooting directly at the camera, causing blood to run down the screen.

  4. Weapon focus - Wikipedia

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    This effect has also been observed in the lab. For example, Pickel (1998) demonstrated an effect comparable to weapon focus using a video in which a man approached a cashier and presented a whole raw chicken or miniature Pillsbury Dough Boy instead of an expected item such as a wallet. From her finding, Pickel (1998) argued that the weapon ...

  5. Iron sights - Wikipedia

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    Rather than being aimed like a rifle or handgun, the shotgun is pointed with the focus always on the target, and the unfocused image of the barrel and bead are placed below the target (the amount below depends on whether the target is rising or falling) and slightly ahead of the target if there is lateral movement.

  6. Gun dynamics - Wikipedia

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    For example, in a tank gun, the barrel normally sits on bearings, which have clearances. When the gun is fired, the barrel expands, causing movement within the bearings. When the center of gravity of the total recoiling mass is ahead of the front bearing, at rest, the barrel sits on the bottom of the front bearing and pushes up against the top ...

  7. Internal ballistics - Wikipedia

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    Before the barrel can release the bullet in a consistent manner, it must grip the bullet in a consistent manner. The part of the barrel between where the bullet exits the cartridge, and engages the rifling, is called the "throat", and the length of the throat is the freebore. In some firearms, the freebore is zero as the act of chambering the ...

  8. Art movement - Wikipedia

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    An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific art philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years.

  9. Pictorialism - Wikipedia

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    Pictorialism is an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of creating an image rather than simply recording it.