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Curious collection of movie clips that misrepresent looking through binoculars

Allan Rose Hill
Mar 12, 2025
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The Hit (1984) screenshot

You've seen it countless times: A person in a movie holds binoculars up to their eyes and the scene shifts to show what they're supposedly seeing. But it isn't quite right. Instead of showing one clear image, we sees two separate circles, which is not what happens in real life. When you actually look through binoculars, you see …

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