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Quebec director Denys Arcand incorporated a similar opposition in the final sequence of Gina (1975), in which an event is exposed as staged within the diegesis when a pan reveals a Panaflex camera perched atop a dolly with its operator and his assistant. Once again, the intimidating presence of these tools of hegemonic cinema contrasts with the portable 16 mm Éclair NPR camera and Nagra sound recorder used earlier by the same fictional filmmakers for their documentary project.