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“We don’t do a lot of unmotivated dolly work, which at this moment is almost entirely unmotivated,” Wehde says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

It’s telling that while Mr. Deakins takes pains to praise his longtime gaffer, key grip, dolly grip, best boy and more, he never bothers to define those roles for the lay reader.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

Brook can be excused for his flying drop of Jamal at gully, but Shoaib Bashir’s miss of the same man at long leg was a dolly.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024

“I put it on a dolly and poke holes in it and then pour hot water into it so the water goes onto the ice,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

The little girl with the dolly sat on her knees near the door.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

A very soft dismissal too, as he dollies up a return catch to Colin Ingram's part-time leg-spin.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024

We moved a few big portfolios of drawings out of the way, then two wobbling stacks of files on wheeled dollies.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022

Those remarkably energetic, sometimes noirishly lit traveling shots were done with dollies, cranes and handheld cameras.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

Multiple dollies on rails transfer cars across 266 stalls in levels B2 to B9.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2021

“Though the sheets have little dollies on them.”

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

Liam Dawson was trapped plumb in front and Ryan Higgins dollied a catch to backward point as Spirit's batters tried and failed to get to grips with the top T20 wicket-taker of all time.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025

Though it was also a thrill when you dollied in on films like the world’s top box-office hit of 2020, a title that had never made it through the walls of my particular media silo.

From Slate ● Jan. 1, 2021

Double was on hand Tuesday as the Möller was delivered from a Lithonia organ builder and dollied back to center stage.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2020

Then on the Serb’s serve in what he must have thought were the concluding moments of his work for the day, Djokovic dollied the most complacent of drop shots a tad long.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2015

Standard cinema technique is to use only one camera, which is dollied forward or backward for each different shot.

From Time Magazine Archive

The speech is executed in one take, with the camera dollying side to side as well as forward and backward, to capture all of Wright’s beats.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

The camera stays still for the most part, dollying in a bit now and again, panning with robotic precision to take in a vista.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2017

The camera is shaking, shifting, rolling, zooming, dollying, fragmenting his performance to the point where it's pulverized, like a mirror broken into a thousand tiny pieces and then crushed into powder.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2011

And some are quick visual puns, taking place in the corner of the frame or with the camera dollying past them, not seeming to care whether you catch them or not.

From Time Magazine Archive

In dollying it generally pays to burn the stone, as so much labour in crushing is thus saved.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson