Bruce Bailie's "All My LIfe" (1966) is a single, continuous travelling shot along a flower-covered fence, concluding with a tilt up to a cloudless blue sky; meanwhile Ella Fitzgerald sings "All My Life." A lovely, poetic, meditative film.
Ernie Gehr's "Eureka" (1974) is a found footage film made from what appears to be one continuous shot taken from the front of a street car descending San Francisco's Market Street circa 1900.
And for that matter, many of the earliest films were one shot films. A notable example is included in Bruce Posner's extensive DVD collection "Unseen Cinema." Shot by Billy Bitzer in 1904, it is given the title "Westinghouse Works. Panorama View. Street Car Motor Room," which is inaccurate: it is not a pan, but a travelling shot taken from above the shop floor.
--Bill Wees
William C. Wees, Editor
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