History Main / CompartmentShot

** In Season 1, there are a few shots which are from within the incinerator, such as when Lestat de Lioncourt opens the lid in episode 2 just before he and Louis toss Mr. Carlo's corpse inside, in episode 4 when Lestat forces Claudia to stay put and observe Charlie's body being charred by the flames, and in episode 5 when the police inspect its contents.

** In Season 1, there are a few shots which are from within the incinerator, such as when Lestat de Lioncourt opens the lid in episode 2 just before he and Louis toss Mr. Carlo's corpse inside, and in episode 4 when Lestat forces Claudia to stay put and observe Charlie's body being charred by the flames.

** In the first scene of the series, the camera is inside Daniel Molloy's mailbox when he unlocks it to take out the package that Louis de Pointe du Lac had shipped to him.

* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': Dana opens the fridge and is bathed in harsh yellow light.

* ''Anime/{{Tekkonkinkreet}}'' has a shot from inside a washing machine onto Black.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In Season 1, there are a few shots which are from within the incinerator, such as when Lestat de Lioncourt opens the lid in episode 2 just before he and Louis de Pointe du Lac toss Mr. Carlo's corpse inside, and in episode 4 when Lestat forces Claudia to stay put and observe Charlie's body being charred by the flames.

A Compartment Shot may be used to show a character PostStressOvereating, checking on an important object, going for a MidnightSnack, or making a significant discovery. It may also be used to emphasize the character's EmptyFridgeEmptyLife or showing the reaction to seeing a MacGuffin while showing the object itself.

* Played with in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''. Stan, suspicious of his new Iranian neighbours, the Memaris, disguises himself as Mrs. Memari's doctor as she's about to undergo a smear test. The viewers see a shot from inside ''something'' as Stan opens it up and starts rooting around, commenting on how he wishes Francine would "keep hers this clean"... then comes the reveal as he pulls a packet of Tic Tacs out, and an outraged Mrs. Memari demands to know why he's searching her ''purse''.

** "A Glass of Warm Ed", as Ed sleepwalks and raids Jimmy's fridge, where he entires an entire pie, followed by washing it down with an entire carton of milk.

** "Who, What, Where, Ed", the Eds are preparing an omlette. Ed is asked to find some eggs in the refrigerator. What follows is a shot from inside the fridge where he first looks into the freezer, finding some completely frozen ice-cream. Only later does he find eggs, but by then he manages to get his tongue frozen to the ice-cream, which causes quite a problem when he tries to return with the eggs...

** "Who, What, Where, Ed", the Eds are preparing a pizza. Ed is asked to find some eggs in the refrigerator. What follows is a shot from inside the fridge where he first looks into the freezer, finding some completely frozen ice-cream. Only later does he find eggs, but by then he manages to get his tongue frozen to the ice-cream, which causes quite a problem when he tries to return with the eggs...

* Used in the episode "Wisdom Teeth" of ''Series/BroadCity'' where Ilana Glazer is making her friend a drink to help her feel better.

* A man is making a sandwich for a discreet midnight snack, grabbing lettuce, tomato, etc. and of course the Miracle Whip.

* In ''Sword of Gideon'', a made-for-TV movie about Mossad agents hunting down the terrorists responsible for the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics, one of the agents notices that someone's been in his apartment. He carefully searches his place and finds a bomb. After defusing it, he opens the refrigerator per this trope. [[spoiler: There was another bomb ''inside'' the fridge, rigged to go off...when the door was opened.]]

* There was a scene in the first episode of ''Series/BreakingBad'' where Walt fishes laundered money out of a washing machine.

* This is a very common shot used in ''Series/GoodEats'', coming from not only the fridge but the microwave, oven, freezer, and spice cabinet. It was used to provide the viewer not only a view of Alton either taking or depositing food but also giving him a chance to indicate directions for certain cooking steps, such as oven temperatures, and to show off some of his storage tips, such as the spice tins held on the inside of that cabinet by velcro.

A Compartment Shot may be used to show a character PostStressOvereating, checking on a important object, going for a MidnightSnack, or making a significant discovery. It may also be used to emphasize the character's EmptyFridgeEmptyLife or showing the reaction to seeing a MacGuffin while showing the object itself.

* Used in a flashblack in Episode 1 of ''Manga/SweetBlueFlowers'', where kindergartner!Akira looks inside her desk for her crayons.

* ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' uses such a shot, but food isn't being retrieved. Instead Caesar the chimp opens it to find canisters of ALZ-113, a Alzheimer's cure drug that can make apes smarter.

* ''Film/WildTales'' likes these POV shots. Besides a TrunkShot, we also get a shot from inside an overhead locker on an airplane as well as a shot form inside a cupboard in a kitchen.

* ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' did this all the time in order to hide the join between the live action and the stop-motion animation of the food. Sometimes the animated food even ''interacts'' with Pee-Wee!

** "Knock, Knock, Who's Ed?" The Eds prepare for a monster movie marathon by raiding the fridge; during this fridge shot, we find Ed squirting the ketchup straight into his mouth, followed by plastering a doughnut over his eye (looking out the hole), and Double D excited at find a jar of garbanzo paste (to Eddy's disgust).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In a holiday episode Marge takes a ham out of the oven to give it another coat of glaze. We see a shot from inside the oven as she opens it, and the ham is already glowing from the amount of glaze on it.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' in the episode "Sisters" Starfire sadly open the fridge to get a soda for her Sister Blackfire who is still arrogant.

* There was case (read about it some 15 years ago, can't remember all the details) when a woman suspected her husband of infidelity. Since he had a habit to ask her for a drink from the fridge after sex, she asked a private detective to place a hidden camera there to activate when the door opens. Four different naked ladies were caught on the film.

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* In ''Sword of Gideon'', a made-for-TV movie about Mossad agents hunting down the terrorists responsible for the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics, one of the agents notices that someone's been in his apartment. He carefully searches his place and finds a bomb. After defusing it, he opens the refrigerator per this trope. [[spoiler: There was another bomb ''inside'' the fridge, rigged to go off...when the door was opened.]]
* ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' uses such a shot, but food isn't being retrieved. Instead Caesar the chimp opens it to find canisters of ALZ-113, a Alzheimer's cure drug that can make apes smarter.
* Used to subvert expectations in ''Film/FourteenOhEight''. We see the hotel room's mini-bar from the inside when the hero opens it. He looks baffled and we assume it is because the fridge is empty but it turns out, the fridge's backside is open and leads into the next room from where the hotel manager starts to berate the hero.
* ''Film/{{Secretary}}'' has a shot from inside the fridge when Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal's character fetches something from it.

* ''Film/{{Whiplash}}'' has a scene where the hero opens a wardrobe door to look for his drums. We see the shot from inside the wardrobe.
* Early on in ''Film/DudeWheresMyCar'' there is a shot from inside the fridge onto the heroes showing their reaction to the fridge being filled up with cups of chocolate pudding.
* In ''Film/{{Species}}'', this shot used when young Sil snatches food from the train's dining car.
* ''Film/WildTales'' likes these POV shots. Besides a TrunkShot, we also get a shot from inside an overhead locker on an airplane as well as a shot form inside a cupboard in a kitchen.
* In ''Film/TheProfessional'', we get such a shot to watch Mathilda fill up the fridge with milk.

* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': Dana opens the fridge and is bathed in harsh yellow light.
* ''Film/TheBody2012'' has a shot from inside a toilet bowl as Álex picks out the pieces of the torn dinner card to [[EatTheEvidence stuff them into his mouth]].

* This is a very common shot used in ''Series/GoodEats'', coming from not only the fridge but the microwave, oven, freezer, and spice cabinet. It was used to provide the viewer not only a view of Alton either taking or depositing food but also giving him a chance to indicate directions for certain cooking steps, such as oven temperatures, and to show off some of his storage tips, such as the spice tins held on the inside of that cabinet by velcro.
* The intro to ''Series/ParkerLewisCantLose'' featuring the entire Lewis family grabbing things from the fridge.

* In ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]], we get a shot from inside the washing machine onto Rose's mother as she is sorting out the laundry.
* ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' did this all the time in order to hide the join between the live action and the stop-motion animation of the food. Sometimes the animated food even ''interacts'' with Pee-Wee!

* In the pilot of ''Series/{{Sense 8}}'', there is a shot from inside the [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/sensate/images/4/43/101_-_Wolfgang_y_Felix_observan_los_diamantes.png/revision/latest?cb=20150818212013&path-prefix=es opened safe]] onto the diamonds in the foreground and Wolfgang and his friend in the background.

* Shows up in the third act of the ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E2BabysittingBogus Babysitting Bogus]]", when the babysitter reaches inside the fridge and takes out a Tupperware bowl.
* Happens at the beginning of the infamous "One Beer" short from the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "Elephant Issues", when Buster asks Plucky and Hamton what they'd like to drink before deciding on the titular beer.

* Some non-fridge examples from WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts
** ''The Little Whirlwind'' opens with Minnie Mouse taking out a cake from her oven, with the shot being set up like this.
** ''Mickey's Birthday Party'' has a scene where Goofy checks on the cake as the layers are rising.

* Played with in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''. Stan, suspicious of his new Iranian neighbours, the Memaris, disguises himself as Mrs. Memari's doctor as she's about to undergo a smear test. The viewers see a shot from inside ''something'' as Stan opens it up and starts rooting around, commenting on how he wishes Francine would "keep hers this clean"... then comes the reveal as he pulls a packet of Tic Tacs out, and an outraged Mrs. Memari demands to know why he's searching her ''purse''.

* In the pilot of ''Series/{{Sense 8}}'', there is a shot from inside the opened safe onto the diamonds in the foreground and Wolfgang and his friend in the background.

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* ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor'' (1996) has a shot on Sherman from inside his microwave.

* Used in a flashblack in Episode 1 of ''Manga/AoiHana'', where kindergartner!Akira looks inside her desk for her crayons.