History CameraAbuse / FIlm

* In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkBoyAndLavaGirl'', Minus (Linus) is the victim of a [[VisualPun brain storm]]. One of the brains lands in his hands and he throws it at the camera. It spends about three seconds or so slipping down the lens.
* The girl scout fight in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''.
* In ''Film/AlienAbduction2014'', the hand-held camera filming the action is dropped from low-Earth orbit to smash into the ground in the middle of a field. The lens is shattered, but the camera itself is still functional.

* The tricky/dangerous parts of ''Film/{{Crank}}: High Voltage'''s action scenes were shot with relatively cheap UsefulNotes/HighDefinition camcorders because if they were damaged during the shoot, it wouldn't cost too much to replace them. They went through 15 of them.

** Happens twice in ''Film/HighAnxiety'', when the camera dollies through a window, which breaks. In this film, it's a parody of Hitchcock's famous move of dollying through a window without breaking it using clever editing and effects.

* In the 2016 film ''Director's Cut'', an eccentric filmmaker named Herbert Blount (played by Penn Jillette) contributes to a crowdfunding campaign for the FilmWithinAFilm ''Knocked Off'', earning him the Executive Producer credit and a line as an extra in the movie. The film implied that Herbert was unhappy over his part getting cut out, so he kidnapped Missy Pyle, and stole the film's raw footage to make it his own. The penultimate scene in the film (and the last scene in Herbert's version of Knocked Off) shows Missy whacking Herbert with a tripod filmed in different angles, including directly from the camera... which happens to be screwed on the tripod.

* In the 2016 film ''Director's Cut'', an eccentric filmmaker named Herbert Blount (played by Penn Jillette) contributes to a crowdfunding campaign for the FilmWithinAFilm ''Knocked Off'', earning him the Executive Producer credit and a line as an extra in the movie. The film implied that Herbert was unhappy over his part getting cut out, so he kidnapped Missy Pyle, and stole the film's raw footage to make it his own. The last scene in Herbert's version of Knocked Off shows Missy whacking Herbert with a tripod in different angles, including directly from the camera... which happens to be on the tripod.

* In the 2016 film ''Director's Cut'', an eccentric filmmaker named Herbert Blount (played by Penn Jillette) contributes to a crowdfunding campaign for the FilmWithinAFilm ''Knocked Off'', earning him the Executive Producer credit and a line as an extra in the movie. The film implied that Herbert was unhappy over his part getting cut out, so he kidnapped Creator/MissyPyle, and stole the film's raw footage to make it his own. The last scene in Herbert's version of Knocked Off shows Missy whacking Herbert with a tripod in different angles, including directly from the camera... which happens to be on the tripod.