. The long tracking shot (one continuous take) has been a cinematic marvel and a calling card of sorts for directors ever since Orson Welles opened Touch of Evil with one long tracking shot.
It's true that the advent of steadicams and digital editing have helped today's filmmakers do what their predecessors only dreamed of, but the long tracking shot continues to be one of the most impressive feats of cinematic magic out there. Scorsese used it extensively in Goodfellas, Alfonso Cuaron used a particularly long shot to show the chaotic nature of a shootout in last year's Children of Men and even Alfred Hitchcock used the technique, filming Rope in only 10 total shots.
It's true that the advent of steadicams and digital editing have helped today's filmmakers do what their predecessors only dreamed of, but the long tracking shot continues to be one of the most impressive feats of cinematic magic out there. Scorsese used it extensively in Goodfellas, Alfonso Cuaron used a particularly long shot to show the chaotic nature of a shootout in last year's Children of Men and even Alfred Hitchcock used the technique, filming Rope in only 10 total shots.
Those shots were all impressive, but the record-holder for longest tracking shot goes to Aleksandr Sokurov for his 99 minute shot in Russian Ark. Yes, the famed Russian filmmaker actually shot his entire movie, chronicling 300 years of Russian history, in one take.
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