History Main / BinocularShot

* Used in many ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' adventures, e.g. ''The Shooting Star''.

* Parodied in the ZAZ movie ''Film/TopSecret'': when a character looks at a prison camp through binoculars, a cow in front of it is seen to climb over the double-circle matte.

* Occurs in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.

* The realistic version, using a telescope, happens several times in ''Film/MasterAndCommander'', usually PlayedForDrama.
** At the start of the movie Midshipman Hollom is panning his glass across a fog bank when he sees a glimpse of a sailing ship in the fog. When he takes a second look however, there's nothing there. When the captain takes a look, he sees the flash of cannonfire and has just enough time to order the crew to hit the deck before they are raked with grapeshot.

* An episode of the Aussie kids' show ''Series/NewMacDonaldsFarm'' defied the convention: there's one ep where the characters are on a mock safari, and one of them is looking at the animals (dressed up as wild animals) through a pair of binoculars. The shots used for the binocular shots are matted with a single circle.

* ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'': Looking through the Paragoggles, naturally.
* The binocular view in ''Sub Battle Simulator''.
* The binocular view in ''VideoGame/{{Interstate76}}''.

* A monocular variant in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'', as Rexxar is looking through a telescope at an enemy encampment.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' uses a [[http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep1/ep1-863.png telescope shot]] in the first episode, when Zuko sees Aang and Katara jumping off the old shipwreck.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins'' episode "The Doom Funnel Rescue", this occurs when Fidgel is looking for a gas station in space.

* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', Team Rocket frequently uses high-tech binoculars to spy on the twerps, complete with crosshairs, distance measuring, random graphs and video-like zooms.

* Used in the TheFilmOfTheBook ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} and Cleopatra''. Even though the character is holding non-existent binoculars (hey, they haven't been invented yet.)

* ''ComicBook/WolverinePatch'': After 'Patch' (who's actually [[Characters/WolverineJamesLoganHowlett Wolverine]] in disguise) [[ItsRainingMen jumps from his ally Archie's plane]] into the jungle, a red-tinged binocular shot shows that he's been spotted despite his precautions. The next page changes viewpoint to reveal that the villainous General Coy and his troops are watching.

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* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', Team Rocket frequently uses high-tech binoculars to spy on the twerps.

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, Team Rocket frequently uses high-tech binoculars to spy on the twerps.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' as we see Grug use his hands as a Binocular Shot at the beginning of the film.

* ''ComicBook/WolverinePatch'': After 'Patch' (who's actually [[Characters/WolverineJamesLoganHowlett Wolverine]] in disguise) [[ItsRainingMen jumps from his ally Archie's plane]] into the jungle, a red-tinged binocular shot shows that he's been spotted despite his precautions. The next page changes viewpoint to reveal the villainous General Coy and his troops are watching.

* ''ComicBook/WolverinePatch'': After 'Patch' (aka [[Characters/WolverineJamesLoganHowlett Wolverine]]) [[ItsRainingMen jumps from his ally Archie's plane]] into the jungle, a red-tinged binocular shot shows that he's been spotted despite his precautions. The next page changes viewpoint to reveal the villainous General Coy and his troops are watching.

* Used in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' when the characters look through Lenny the Binoculars. [[FridgeLogic Which is weird since their heads are so small that they can only look through one lens at a time.]] This is also, apparently, the view Lenny always sees.

** Used for a MoodWhiplash moment when revelry on the ''HMS Surprise'' cut to someone looking at the ship through a glass, showing their enemy has managed to find them again.

* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'', "Double-O Twistervision" has a scene showing two movie villains through a cutout of two circles, so as to simulate the Binocular Shot.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SylvanianFamilies'' episode "Here Come the Brides", Packbat looks at the Sylvanian Forest through binoculars, looking out for a forest fire he tried to start (the Sylvanians put out the fire before it could get any worse, of course). We get a shot of Sylvanian Forest through his binoculars as he's looking.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Revenge of the Chip", as D.W. investigates to see if Arthur told everyone about her thinking green potato chips are poisonous, at one point she looks at him and Buster through binoculars and there is a shot showing what she sees through them.
* This happens a lot in ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'', usually from [[KidDetective Mitchell]], who owns a pair of binoculars. Like in "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E16SunspotsSunspotOurSunIsAStar Our Sun is a Star!]]", for instance.

* An ep of the Aussie kids' show ''New [=MacDonald's=] Farm'' defied the convention: there's one ep where the characters are on a mock safari, and one of them is looking at the animals (dressed up as wild animals) through a pair of binoculars. The shots used for the binocular shots are matted with a single circle.

* Used accurately in the ''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'' miniseries - that is, with only one circle, not two overlapping circles. It also had imperfections in the glass as an added touch.