The verb for what one does with a movie camera? It is not a matter of aiming and firing. Truth flies off again, uninjured. The gaze of the seabird biologist, seldom allowed to mingle with subjects of his investigation, is trained on something that develops at a great distance or otherwise out of reach. Imagine a movie composed as a Japanese picture scroll, unrolling west to east. The relationship among events along the way may be of topographical or chronological order (sometimes both).—Anonymous