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The first image that greets you as you enter the room is an unforgettable fly-on-the-wall portrait of Margaret Thatcher flanked by fawning followers – one of whom seems to be about to orgasm with delight at the proximity of his beloved leader – at a Tory party conference in 1985.
Mitch Epstein: American Power; Chris Steele-Perkins: The Pleasure Principle – review 2011
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Now we have Candy Bar Girls, a new fly-on-the-wall six-part series featuring the staff and customers of a bar in Soho.
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The Promise provides a fly-on-the-wall look at the creative process of a possessed, controlling, almost excessively talented artist at the most decisive point in his career.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
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The Promise provides a fly-on-the-wall look at the creative process of a possessed, controlling, almost excessively talented artist at the most decisive point in his career.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
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The Promise provides a fly-on-the-wall look at the creative process of a possessed, controlling, almost excessively talented artist at the most decisive point in his career.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
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Lesser fly-on-the-wall programmes would have ladled the pathos on with a shovel but there's an unfussy, understated humanity here.
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More fly-on-the-wall footage reaches us from Hastings jobcentre, where managers struggling to cope in the Con-Dem world have removed the toilet brushes from staff bathrooms – apparently on grounds of cost.
Diary Hugh Muir 2010
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Yet I was left wanting even more fly-on-the-wall detail of exactly how Boeing vanquished not only a redesigned Comet, but also Douglas's competing DC-8 jetliner.
Shrinking the World Daniel Michaels 2010
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I wonder if we will ever return to the days of the fly-on-the-wall author, who head-hopped at will and passed comment on what was happening in the story?
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The Promise provides a fly-on-the-wall look at the creative process of a possessed, controlling, almost excessively talented artist at the most decisive point in his career.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
vendingmachine commented on the word fly-on-the-wall
Fly-on-the-wall is a style of documentary-making used in film and television production. The name derived from the idea that events are seen candidly, as a fly on a wall might see them. In the purest form of fly-on-the-wall documentary-making, the camera crew works as unobtrusively as possible; however, it is also common for participants to be interviewed, often by an off-camera voice.
November 5, 2016