A grasshopper who carries one of these objects gets revenge on an adulterous beetle in a 1912 short that uses stop-motion with dead insect specimens. An angry man swallows one of these objects whole in James Williamson’s 1901 short The Big Swallow. In another film, a partly transparent one of these objects is shown in Dutch angle shots that are intercut with real footage from both a birth and a funeral. In that film’s opening scene, a man places one of these objects atop a much larger one on which he is standing, before entering a (*) theater whose seats open automatically for its patrons. One of these objects assembles itself late in that film, which ends with an eye being superimposed onto one of these objects. An outlaw fires his gun at one of these objects at the end of The Great Train Robbery. For 10 points, a 1929 experimental film by Dziga Vertov is titled for a man with what technology? ■END■
ANSWER: movie camera [or camera lens; accept The Cameraman’s Revenge; accept Man with a Movie Camera or Chelovek’s kinoapparatom; prompt on lenses; prompt on frames by asking “what technology is creating the frame?”]
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= Average correct buzz position