time collaborator,  lighting cameraman David Watkin (qv), as Watkins photographic  style was too classical, and thus not adaptable to a comic book  aesthetic. Working with his Lester, Paynter and his camera operator  Freddie Cooper (qv) developed a different type of framing from the  original, but one that was ideal for their concept of a comic book  film: They replaced Unsworths gliding camera with horizontal  panning and static framing to evoke comic books and comic strips,  with their static frames that are crammed with people and objects.  Similarly, the composition of shots the trio developed for "Superman  II" had objects and people crammed into the frame. To further  emphasize comic book composition, the action was photographed from  one angle, to give the film a desired flatness. (Harkening back to  the technique of the early sound era, Lesters films had always been  shot with three cameras simultaneously filming the action all at one  time, with two cameras for close