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Moving cameras and Intolerance

posted 13 years ago by sean_pak215
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This movie gets a bunch of credit for pioneering tracking shots, but I was just watching Griffith's Intolerance (1916) and there are several moving shots there! Really, from a technical standpoint The Last Laugh didn't seem to do much that Intolerance didn't do eight years earlier. I haven't watched Birth of a Nation yet so I don't know if Griffith employed camera movement even earlier in that film. Any other pre-1924 examples of tracking shots? And why does The Last Laugh get so much credit for it?

[–] Endy7 12 years ago

"And why does The Last Laugh get so much credit for it?"

by who exactly?

It gets credit for innovations concerning visual language.

"Cabiria" by Giovanni Pastorne from 1914 is usually credited for popularizing tracking shots, but they were used years before on smaller scale films in UK and Russia.