The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

1.7 Sunrise

Cinematographers Charles Rosher and Karl Struss placed the camera on a platform suspended from tracks specially built into the studio’s ceiling. Motors aided the shot’s operator, Struss, by lifting the camera platform up and down as it moved forward. For all the shot’s technical bravado, its real interest lies in its shifts from external to internal and back again.

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