These aren't crooked cameras; they're arenas. The developers used arenas for dialogue scenes, slightly modifying the original scenes and saving them under the same names. The first screenshot shows the original arena and the original dialogue scene, and the second shows the original dialogue scene, but now with the Lords' arena. Both screenshots are from Tribes of the East.
What command is used to launch dialogue scenes from the console?
In the Lua file, add the following at the beginning: StartDialogScene("/DialogScenes/C1/M1/D2/DialogScene.xdb#xpointer(/DialogScene)"); to skip the required video.