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An Insert

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An Insert	comment	A close-up shot of hands, a document, a murder weapon, and so on. Cut into a scene to appear part of the continuity, but probably shot separately. The hands often don't belong to the actor in the scene. If the hands are effecting a murder, they are Hands of Death. Especially if clad in black gloves. When it's the director doing this, it's an Insert Cameo. If Linear Editing is being used, then expect the insert shots to be part of the B-Roll.
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An Insert / int_28724fb2	comment	In Titanic (1997), the hands drawing the picture of Rose belong to James Cameron.
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An Insert / int_480fecca	type	An Insert
An Insert / int_480fecca	comment	This technique dates back to 1902 and Life of an American Fireman, in which a hand and arm enters the frame to open the fire alarm box and pull the alarm lever.
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An Insert / int_4e433e78	comment	The character introduction in Monty Python and the Holy Grail is done by means of an expository book, the pages of which are turned by a cast member's wife. At the end of the shot, the hand is snatched away by a gorilla hand. All further shots of the book are then turned by the gorilla hand.
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An Insert / int_58f28be1	comment	The Godfather: When Michael opens the newspaper to read about his father's shooting, his hands in the insert are played by George Lucas.
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An Insert / int_5b3356f8	comment	In Turning Red, this is used to show Mei looking at a flyer for Tyler's birthday party just before she heads off to it.
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An Insert / int_5fa33285	comment	Done in Labyrinth whenever David Bowie manipulates his magical balls. The hands shown are those of juggling artist Michael Moschen.
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An Insert / int_7884ec15	comment	Used for a gag in Seinfeld, when Jerry's Girl of the Week has unattractive "man-hands". There are lots of close-ups on her beefy hands (actually the hands of a male actor) as she tears bread, pries the cap off a beer bottle, rips a lobster in half, and so on.
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An Insert / int_8d817ccb	comment	A Lost example of a insert changing the plot: when Ben killed his father, it was originally intended that he would just sit there as the gas that killed DHARMA killed him too. They decided him having a active role in the murder would work better, so instead we get close ups of hands holding a gas canister...
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An Insert / int_8e8ed866	type	An Insert
An Insert / int_8e8ed866	comment	Knight Rider features several bizarre "Exposition Hands" sequences. At least once, for no clear reason, rather than doing an insert of an indicator on the dashboard, a close up of the indicator is shown on the dashboard's monitor. Several times, an insert of some feature being activated shows a hand pressing a button on the dashboard, even though there is no one in the car at the time. This latter is probably because the activation of the feature was associated with Stock Footage that didn't take into account the fact that KITT could drive himself when necessary. This was also used to allow functions and devices (such as the nearly-shoebox-sized analyzer and the later buttons for Super Pursuit Mode/Emergency Braking System) that would never fit in the actual dashboard. This has caused trouble for replica builders trying to be as accurate as possible.
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An Insert / int_976efc02	comment	On the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Riding With Death," this device was used a handful of times so additional dialogue could be added that would tie together the completely unrelated plots of the two episodes smashed together to make the movie. Notably, a close-up of a speakerphone as we hear Ben Murphy say "Leonard, I hear you've grown quite the mustache while I was away."
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An Insert / int_9a7088bc	comment	An interesting example from Star Trek: The Original Series: actor James Doohan (Scotty) was a Lieutenant in the 14th Field Artillery, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division in World War II, where he had lost the middle finger of his right hand in a friendly-fire incident at the Battle of Normandy. Keen eyed viewers will note that in close-up inserts of Scotty operating machinery, his hands have all their digits (because the close-ups were doubled by another actor). But in long shots, its more obvious that one of them is missing... this applies to all the movies featuring the original series cast as well.
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An Insert / int_9b7e31d	comment	A notable example is during the Thunderbirds episode "Vault of Death", involving a close-up of Lady Penelope's black-gloved hand clicking fingers to pass the time, and distracting Parker from his stethoscopic safe-cracking.
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An Insert / int_9eac916a	comment	The Sting. When Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) is doing card tricks before the poker game, the hands doing the tricks are actually those of John Scarne, famous magician and expert on gambling and card manipulation.
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An Insert / int_c02fb957	comment	Willie Mosconi served as technical advisor on The Hustler (1961) and performed some of the trick shots, though not for Jackie Gleason who made all his own shots.
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An Insert / int_cb16bae4	comment	The original Dragnet television series often had entire episodes composed almost entirely of inserts showing the recovery of evidence as Friday narrates, probably because the scripts were being adapted from the exposition-heavy Radio Drama. Stock Footage abounds, with the result that several episodes show the exact same footage of the same actors talking as Friday monotones, "Interviews with the friends and neighbors of the victim turned up no new leads."
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An Insert / int_d11cd383	comment	Done particularly ineptly in an otherwise touching episode of Kamen Rider Den-O. The hands playing piano in close up clearly belong to someone a good forty to fifty pounds heavier than rail-thin lead Takeru Sato.
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An Insert / int_d2bae484	comment	The reality show The Amazing Race features close-ups of hands holding the various clues/tasks the racers receive while host Phil Keoghan describes them in a voiceover. These are known as "Exposition Hands."
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An Insert / int_d2e2ca76	comment	An episode of The George Lopez Show had a hilariously blatant example, with the teenage niece displaying mad shuffling skillz at a poker game.
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An Insert / int_e4732abc	comment	Mentioned in the DVD commentary of the 1st season of Stargate Atlantis, which explained that the same hand actor is used for all inserts, thus giving big fat fingers to otherwise delicately-handed actor David Hewlett.
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An Insert / int_e4f2046d	comment	Mercilessly spoofed in the Australian series Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures, where a running gag involved an insert of a handshake being played every time the title character met someone new in the bush. The insert never matched the two people in question, which really stood out when the new character was black, wearing gloves, sitting, or openly hostile to the main character (and thus not going to shake his hand).
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