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Refers to the practice of shooting a solitary figure from a slightly lower angle. This magnifies the figure's height and presence in the mind of the viewer. Together with the [[Scully Box]] and clever wardrobe, it can also make shorter figures appear larger than they really are.
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* ''[[Triumph of the Will]]'' was not the first use of this technique, but it was the first famous use of it.
* ''October: Ten Days that Shook the World'', is a 1927 pro-Soviet propaganda film that pioneered the technique in its demonizing of the representative of the Provisional Government. The man even sports a Hitler 'stache twenty years before it became ''chic'' for dictators to do so, hilariously enough.
* Used and subverted, both to great effect, in ''[[
* Speaking of Welles, the film adaptation of [[Franz Kafka|Kafka's]] ''[[The Trial]]'' used this shot for almost every scene in the movie.
* ''[[Shrek]]'': Evil dictator Lord Farquaad is introduced with dramatic music and a [[Hitler Cam]]... and then he walks by a pair of guards, [[Big Little Man|revealing him to be about three feet tall]].
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* Appears in ''[[Surf Ninjas]]''.
* The trope-naming [[General Ripper]] in ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'' is shot from this angle from time to time, especially when outlining his agenda.
* Clu in ''[[Tron
* Used in ''[[The Good Son]]'' to make Henry seem more intimidating
* Used on [http://www.blog.ngorbachov.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/katya.jpg Katya] in ''[[Stilyagi]]'' when she denounces Mel and throws him out of the Komsomol.
* ''[[M]]'' includes a sequence where a man bumps into a very large, scary man on the street. The tall man is shot very low to emphasize his height, and the normal man is shot very high to seem much shorter than he is.
* In ''[[The Super]]'', Joe Pesci's character comes face to face with a very tall basketball player, "the Milkman." From Pesci's perspective, the Milkman is shot using a Hitler Cam to seem incredibly tall. From the Milkman's perspective, Pesci is shot from above to look puny.
* Used in ''[[Battlefield Earth (
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The various Japanese [[Super Sentai]] shows that form the basis of ''[[Power Rangers]]'' use the [[Hitler Cam]] on the [[People in Rubber Suits|rubber-suited actor]] as he stands to show the [[Monster of the Week]] growing to skyscraper size.
* Spoofed in ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]''. When [[Kamen Rider Den
* On ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', any time this shot was used in a film that Joel and the 'bots watched, Tom Servo would [[Lampshade]] it by shouting, "I'm huge!"
* [[Stephen Colbert]]'s old opening had a [[Hitler Cam]] shot, with him pointing derisively at the camera for being shorter than him, followed by a dove's-eye-view shot where he gives a sour grapes look to the camera.
* Visually lampshaded on ''[[Mad Men]]'' during a long conversation about new FCC guidelines on smoking in television advertising. They included the prohibition of shots of smokers from this angle, while [[Irony|the entire conversation was shot from such angles as Don Draper smokes a cigarette]]. For additional irony, the character reading out the guidelines is Roger Sterling, played by John Slattery, who [[Directed
* The eponymous [[Iron Chef|Iron Chefs]] get this treatment irregardless of the chef's height in question, often preventing viewers from realizing that the acclaimed Masaharu Morimoto is a mere 5'3".
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Used in ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Phaeton, who is obviously Hitler's [[Expy]] in ''[[
* In ''[[The Simpsons (
* Used in-universe in one episode of ''[[
* Used in ''[[
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