to pat / to clap / to slap / to swat / to take (a photo) / to shoot (a film) / racket (sports) / beat (music)
拍
=
扌
+
白
:
Pinocchio (p) is spinning a white flag (白) in front of the airplane (ai1). He is throwing and catching the flag with a toy claw (扌). Many people stop to watch and applaud (拍) him.
lightning / electricity / electric (bound form) / to get (or give) an electric shock / phone call or telegram etc / to send via telephone or telegram etc
电
=
乚
+
曰
:
Dorothy Gale (di) is looking for a wall plug for her charger (mnemonic symbol for 电) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). She's digging up the whole place with a shovel (乚), but instead of a wall plug she finds a microphone (曰).
picture / image / film / movie / photograph / reflection / shadow / trace
影
=
彡
+
景
:
Maud Younger (y) wants to watch a movie (影) inside of the engine ((e)ng3), but only men are allowed. She doesn't bounce back but instead, being a suffragist, puts on a long, fake Santa beard (彡). She enters to find that the whole movie consists of a still frame of a bonsai tree, a landscape in a pot. Back in the days, the script writers were not so experienced it seems.