Movie Filmed in Single Shot?!
Question: I know this is weird and kinda a trivia type question but I have been curios about it and have been asking a bunch of people but no one can give me a straight answer.
Has there been a full length movie (like 90 minutes) ever filmed in a single shot ? I mean with no editing and combining of film pieces.. just one camera tapping a complete film. More realistic.. what about a simple 30 minute televising show? I would really appreciate an answer :)
Answers: I know this is weird and kinda a trivia type question but I have been curios about it and have been asking a bunch of people but no one can give me a straight answer.
Has there been a full length movie (like 90 minutes) ever filmed in a single shot ? I mean with no editing and combining of film pieces.. just one camera tapping a complete film. More realistic.. what about a simple 30 minute televising show? I would really appreciate an answer :)
russian ark
I'm sure it has been done, if only just to do it, but it is very unpractical, to say the least. If you want to get technical... live events aren't edited but they are done with different cameras so that might not fit your standard.
The closest I've come across is be the movie "The Party" starring Peter Sellers. There was no script, the editor just basically outlining some of the things he wanted in it (including an elephant, a swimming pool and Gunga Din) then rolled the cameras. There was one take and that was it.
1) only home movies
2) television shows need commercials. so they have to stop.
televangelism & telethons sometimes have no breaks.
No film does that. The closest one gets to that is "Rope", but that still uses tricks to change from film can to film can.
Both "The Player" and "Touch of Evil" have monstrous opening tracking shorts, but that is the limit of a film.
And really nothing on TV for that
there was,there was!"Rope",by Alfred Hitchcock,was shot in continuity.film cannisters held 12 minutes,so when the y changed the filmstock,the camerawould rest on the back of someone's jacket,then move again. it was a movie about 2 guys who thought they had commited the perfect murder.the dead body was in a chest which wasthe buffet table that everyone ate off as they held a party in their apartment.
Ray just beat me, I was hurrying to write Rope.
All of the sitcom type TV shows, such as the "I love Lucy" show and "The Honeymooners" were LIVE. ALWAYS. So when they had a mistake it was shown to the entire viewing audience live in real time. The commercials in those days were often a part of the show, not a cut to, but performed by the Emcee of the show live too.
"Time Code" (2000) is the closest I've seen that addresses your question.
There are a few different story lines in the movie. The screen is split into four quadrants, with one camera following each story in a single, unedited take over the span of 93 minutes.
skincancer is correct.."Russian Ark".."Rope" was close but Hitchcock would not have let that happen...it was shot in ten minute takes in an effort to make it appear seamless.
"Russian Ark"
Time Code by Figgis