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Re: longest tracking shot ever?

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In Reply to: longest tracking shot ever? posted by HI FI BOB on April 23, 2005 at 06:34:18:

The Longest Day... I just don't know how many minutes.
Joseph

Re: longest tracking shot ever? - JP van Son 12:44:26 04/24/05 (0)
Joseph,
I thought so at first, as well, remembering this film from a History Channel 'Movies in Time' session where they mentioned the scene at Oistreaum (sp?) as being one of the longest continuous shots in film. So, I just pulled out my 'The Longest Day' DVD and timed it out at only a minute 30. Still, being a war movie, this was an awfully long shot considering.
Still, 'The Longest Day' is one of the last great war movies, IMO, from a time before war films degraded to a competition between directors over how much blood and how many severed limbs they could fit in.
- JP

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