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Moving camera with metal casing fell over (4,1,7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

came a cropper

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'moving camera with metal casing fell over' is the definition.
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'moving camera with metal casing fell over' is the wordplay.
'moving' is an anagram indicator.
'with metal casing fell' becomes 'copper' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'over' is an insertion indicator.
'camera' is an anagram of 'ameacr'.
'ameacr' put into 'copper' is 'CAME A CROPPER'.

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(Another definition for came a cropper that I've seen is " fell off?".)

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