pam
verbEtymology Probably alteration of panorama.
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Arts, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Photography Dated To pan a camera in order to show a panorama.
- In this case the field was laid out in segments, and after the camera had been pammed about ten degrees it was stopped and the whole outfit moved over into the next segment, and so on round for ninety degrees;1918, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane, Current Opinion - Volume 64, page 331:
- The camera man, in turn, when he had filmed the accident, pammed — the outrageous word "pam" means panorama — immediately to the sheriff in the hope that he would shoot.1918, Rob Wagner, Film Folk:
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- At one time he ordered a panorama effect, in which the cameras “pammed,” swept from one side to the other, giving a succession of faces at close range.1921, Arthur Benjamin Reeve, The Film Mystery, page 347:
- The mechanism for taking the pictures with these markers on the original film and record can not be operated in quite so simple a manner, since the camera must be left free to be “pammed"—that is, moved about on its tripod to change the field of view.1925, Bell Laboratories Record - Volumes 1-2:
- The institution is "pammed" from a nearby hill-top, followed by close-ups of the various buildings.1932, Educational Screen - Volumes 11-12, page 141:
- This equipment has a distance range of 12,000 feet, and a height range of 750 feet and b, one camera is located 1500 feet from the runway and is "pammed" to follow the airplane.1947, The SAE Journal - Volume 55, page 46:
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