Negative Oblique angle Oblique shot Oblique-angle shot

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Subject Field: Cinematography, Photography

The camera is tilted laterally on a tripod so it is no longer straight with the horizon. The oblique shot takes the straight lines of the world and presents them as diagonals.

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Off-angle shot
Dutch tilt shot
Dutch angle
Oblique shot
Tilted shot

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The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963)

Context: One of the classic employments of the oblique angle is in Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949), a mystery set in post-World War II Vienna.

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Attestation: 3

Inquadratura obliqua

Reliability: 3