The lenses were so long and the cameras so far back, in fact, that on occasion the local police mistook the film’s action for the real thing.
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Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
2 Sep. 2025
Phoenix police detained a man after National Guard members mistook him for bringing unexploded ordnance to the Papago Park Military Reservation for disposal as a bomb threat.
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