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2 with One Camera

Rope is a 1948 American crime film based on the play Rope (1929) by Patrick Hamilton and adapted by Hume Cronyn and Arthur Laurents, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Sidney Bernstein and Hitchcock as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions. Starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, it is the first of Hitchcock's Technicolor films, and is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as a single continuous shot through the use of long takes. The original play was said to be inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. dig the Francis Poulenc song played by Farley Granger. Mouvements Perpétuels no.1 Russian Ark is a 2002 Russian historical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov. It was filmed using a single 96-minute Steadicam sequence shot. Above is part one of the making of... An amazing look and feel. got to love the simplicity and the artful camera work of each.