sentences:  Multiple scenes attempted in "Major Dundee", including slow motion action sequences (inspired by Akira Kurosawa's work in "Seven Samurai" (1954)), characters leaving a village as if in a funeral procession, and the use of inexperienced locals as extras, would become fully realized in "The Wild Bunch".The film was shot with the anamorphic process.Peckinpah and his cinematographer, Lucien Ballard, also made use of telephoto lenses, that allowed for objects and people in both the background and foreground to be compressed in perspective.