History Main / HitlerCam

* ''Bigfoot (1970)'' makes heavy use of this to build the titular monster up. As Creator/RogerEbert pointed out, when you see Bigfoot without this, he's revealed to be about 5'10''.

* Spoofed in ''Series/{{Bargearse}}'' (a GagDub of Australian cop show ''Series/{{Bluey}}''). Detective Twenty is questioning a midget informer. In exchange for the information he's given, he agrees to make the midget the cameraman in the next scene. Cut to HitlerCam view of Twenty questioning someone else.

* Spoofed in ''Series/{{Bargearse}}'' (a GagDub of Australian cop show ''Bluey''). Detective Twenty is questioning a midget informer. In exchange for the information he's given, he agrees to make the midget the cameraman in the next scene. Cut to HitlerCam view of Twenty questioning someone else.

** Daenerys gets a [[https://fedonciadale.tumblr.com/post/184989917765/ shot-for-shot remake]] of ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill''.

Named for the 5ft 9in (175 cm) [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Nazi dictator]], (average male height was generally 5'8" for Europeans, Churchill was 2 inches shorter) who insisted on being filmed in this manner. [[GodwinsLaw Talk about your "significant influence."]] A more {{sesquipedalian|Loquaciousness}} (and palatable) synonym is "subordinated viewpoint." Also, Hitler asked for [[BigLittleMan careful staging]] to [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Bundesarchiv_Bild_119-5243%2C_Wien%2C_Arthur_Seyß-Inquart%2C_Adolf_Hitler.jpg make the much bigger men around him in ceremonial occasions to appear about the same height]].

* ''October: Ten Days that Shook the World'', is a 1927 Soviet film that pioneered the technique in its depiction of the representative of the Provisional Government. The man even sports a Hitler 'stache twenty years before it became ''chic'' for dictators to do so, hilariously enough.

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** The Gateway Arch really ''is'' the tallest structure in St. Louis, but not by the degree to which a lot of photographs of it seem to imply. In pictures taken from ground level on the Illinois side of the river, the Gateway Arch in the foreground appears nearly twice the height of One Metropolitan Square (the second tallest structure in St. Louis) further back, though the actual difference in height is less than 10%.
* Really, any ad ''for'' a political candidate (at least in the US) will tend to employ this trope, as a way to imply that they're a born leader, inspirational, or charismatic. Their opponent tends to get a picture from a higher angle to imply the opposite.
** This was especially noticeable with UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush during his 2004 race against then-Senator John Kerry. The younger Bush is 5'11" (average height, but shorter than his father), while Kerry is 6'4". In fact, the podiums during two of the presidential debates were intentionally designed and cameras placed to make Bush appear Kerry's height or taller. Same thing happened to a lesser extent during his debates with Vice President Al Gore, who is 6'1".
* A large number of newsreels from [[TheNineties the presidency]] of UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush are shot from this angle to make him appear [[SelfDemonstratingArticle like a giant]]. At 6'2" (180cm), he is above average for American males, but not ''that'' above average.
** Of course, the White House briefing room has a (short) dais to allow all the journalists to see the speaker, so cameramen on the floor are standing about 8 inches lower than the speaker is. Unless the cameraman is freakishly tall, there's naturally going to be a bit of this.

Named for the 5ft 9in (175 cm) [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Nazi dictator]], (average male height was generally 5'8" for Europeans, Churchill was 2 inches shorter) who insisted on being filmed in this manner. [[GodwinsLaw Talk about your "significant influence."]] A more {{sesquipedalian|Loquaciousness}} (and palatable) synonym is "subordinated viewpoint." Also, Hitler asked for [[BigLittleMan careful staging]] to [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Bundesarchiv_Bild_119-5243%2C_Wien%2C_Arthur_Sey%C3%9F-Inquart%2C_Adolf_Hitler.jpg make the much bigger men around him in ceremonial occasions to appear about the same height]].

* On ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk'', the Hulk was always shot from a low angle. Creator/LouFerrigno is a very big guy, but they apparently needed him to look taller.

Named for the 5ft 9in (175 cm) [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Nazi dictator]], (average male height was generally 5'8" for Europeans, Churchill was 2 inches shorter) who insisted on being filmed in this manner. [[GodwinsLaw Talk about your "significant influence."]] A more {{sesquipedalian|Loquaciousness}} synonym is "subordinated viewpoint." Also, Hitler asked for [[BigLittleMan careful staging]] to [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Bundesarchiv_Bild_119-5243%2C_Wien%2C_Arthur_Sey%C3%9F-Inquart%2C_Adolf_Hitler.jpg make the much bigger men around him in ceremonial occasions to appear about the same height]].

Named for the 5ft 9in (175 cm) [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Nazi dictator]], who insisted on being filmed in this manner. [[GodwinsLaw Talk about your "significant influence."]] A more {{sesquipedalian|Loquaciousness}} synonym is "subordinated viewpoint." Also, Hitler asked for [[BigLittleMan careful staging]] to [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Bundesarchiv_Bild_119-5243%2C_Wien%2C_Arthur_Sey%C3%9F-Inquart%2C_Adolf_Hitler.jpg make the much bigger men around him in ceremonial occasions to appear about the same height]].

* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', the VillainSong "Be Prepared" gives us a Hitler Cam shot of [[BigBad Scar]]. Bonus points for the hyena troops goose-stepping across the screen in this shot.

* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', Saruman is shown high up on a tower, giving a speech. The camera then sweeps back to a [[http://www.stockphotopro.com/photo-thumbs-2/stockphotopro_5375309ZRV_no_title.jpg Riefenstahl-esque shot of a massive army.]]

** In Season 3 episode 7, Tywin talks with Joffrey in the throne room. To show who really holds the power in the scene, Tywin is given a low Hitler cam while Joffrey is shot from above.

** Used and subverted, both to great effect, in ''Film/CitizenKane''. In one notable shot Creator/OrsonWelles as Kane looms over the camera and seems to be of a height with the windows behind him -- until he walks towards them, when we realize that the room has a thirty-foot ceiling and the ''sills'' of the windows are higher than Kane's head. Welles would go to extreme lengths to set these up in ''Kane''. One day a studio executive wandered into the set to find Welles tearing holes in the floor so he could get a satisfactorily low angle, as depicted in ''[[MakingTheMasterpiece RKO 281]]''

** Used and subverted, both to great effect, in ''Film/CitizenKane''. In one notable shot Creator/OrsonWelles as Kane looms over the camera and seems to be of a height with the windows behind him -- until he walks towards them, when we realize that the room has a thirty-foot ceiling and the ''sills'' of the windows are higher than Kane's head. Welles would go to extreme lengths to set these up in ''Kane''. One day a studio executive wandered into the set to find Welles tearing holes in the floor so he could get a satisfactorily low angle.