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The term "long take" is used because it avoids the ambiguous meanings of "long shot", which can refer to the framing of a shot, and "long cut", which can refer to either a whole version of a film or the general editing pacing of the film. However, these two terms are sometimes used interchangeably with "long take".

Sequence shot

A sequence shot involves both a long take and sophisticated camera movement; it is sometimes called by the French term plan-séquence. Jean Renoir's movie La Grande Illusion illustrates the use of the sequence shot effectively throughout the film. The use of the sequence shot allows for realistic and dramatically significant background and middle ground activity. Actors range about the set transacting their business while the camera shifts focus from one plane of depth to another and back again. Significant off-frame action is often followed with a moving camera, characteristically through a series of pans within a single continuous shot. Jean Renoir Jean Renoir (September 15, 1894 – February 12, 1979), born in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France was a film director. ... Grand Illusion (1937) poster for American release, depicting actors Jean Gabin (as Lt. ...

Longest average shot length

The following films are notable for their exceptionally high ASL (average shot length), a statistical measurement which divides the total length of the film by the number of shots.

Note that ASL tabulation is a relatively recent concept, and most films are not yet documented. This list only represents the highest documented ASLs.

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Productions with notable long takes

• 11 Minutes Ago : Shot in eight 11 minute takes
• 2001: A Space Odyssey: most of the film is shot with unusually long takes
• Atonement - seven minute shot on a wartorn beach of Dunkirk
• Bande à part (the famous Madison dance shot)
• Battlestar Galactica : 2003 SciFi Channel miniseries uses long take in first introduction of the ship.
• Before Sunset
• The Bill 1995 episode "Good Intentions" has four takes over 23 minutes. The first lasts approximately 6 minutes, the second and third last approximately 3 minutes each and the fourth, which includes several parts of the police station, lasts 12 minutes.
• The Bonfire of the Vanities: the opening scene feautures a long take with a moving camera
• Boogie Nights: from the outside to the inside of the disco, approximately 3 minutes and introduces nearly all the major characters of the story.
• Brazil: the introductory shot of the office in Records is a long moving take.
• Breaking News: the opening shot is approximately 7 minutes long.
• Chelsea Girls
• Children of Men: notable takes include: Clive Owen's character's escape from the Fishes to his following reunion with his refugee ward and an escape scene shot entirely within a specially rigged and designed car.
• Citizen Kane: the flashback depicting Kane's childhood features a long take with deep focus.
• City of Hope
• Clerks: The conversation between Dante Hicks and Caitlin Bree at the RST Video is a long take of over five minutes; it was taken on the first night of filming.
• Code Unknown
• Cul-de-Sac
• Damnation
• Death Proof featured in Grindhouse
• Doom: Contains a "first person shooter" sequence which is a continuous shot of just over 5 minutes; was actually filmed in multiple takes that were merged digitally.
• Le Doulos: Jean-Pierre Melville would often use fairly long takes, but this film features a shot that last over seven minutes during a police interrogation.
• Electra (My Love): Consists entirely of twelve long takes in about seventy six minutes.
• Elephant
• Empire
• Entourage: episode 106 "Busey and the Beach" features a long take.
• Eraserhead: directed by David Lynch, whose films often feature long takes.
• Firefly: episodes directed by Joss Whedon often feature long takes.
• Flowers of Shanghai
• Four Rooms: Most of Quentin Tarantino's section, The Man from Hollywood is shot in a single take.
• Funny Games
• Gerry
• Gertrud
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn
• Goodfellas: a long take as Ray Liotta's character enters a nightclub with his girlfriend.
• The Great Ziegfeld: the song "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" is often said to have been filmed in a single long take, but there is a very obvious cut halfway through the sequence in question. Still, most of the song is done as a three-minute take followed immediately by a three-and-a-half-minute take.
• Grindhouse: A scene in Tarantino's half of Grindhouse, Death Proof, features a seven minutes take in which four girls have breakfast and talk about various topics.
• Halloween (1978 film)
• Hard Boiled: a two-minute action sequence including gun battles and a journey in an elevator.
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: when Harry and Hermione uses the Timeturner and leave the castle from the Hospital Wing. However the camera goes through the CGI clock, so it's not a real "direct" long take.
• "Here It Goes Again", OK Go's 2006 single, has a well-known video consisting of one long static take of the band dancing on treadmills. OK Go's "A Million Ways" also consists of a long take of the band dancing.
• A History of Violence: the first scene is a long take.
• Husbands and Wives
• I Am Cuba
• Irréversible
• Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Kadosh
• Kagemusha
• Kill Bill
• La Captive
• Last Days
• The Life of Oharu
• Magnolia
• The Magnificent Ambersons: in Orson Welles's film many sequences are shot in long takes, perhaps the longest being Aunt Fanny's breakdown, where Tim Holt urges Agnes Morehead to pull it together as he leads her though the Amberson mansion by her shoulders.
• Main Hoon Na: The Chale Jaise Hawayein song-and-dance sequence is performed almost entirely in two long takes.
• The Matrix Reloaded:The burly brawl scene features some exceptionally long takes for shots featuring bullet time, this is achieved through the use of a virtual camera which also allows movements that a real camera could not make.
• Menace II Society
• Minority Report: A scene in an apartment building with "spyders" where the camera was put on a crane above the set and moved about.
• The Mirror
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life: A three-minute shot starts in a restaurant and finishes outside, featuring two monolougues (one of which is a poem) by characters discussing their thoughts on the meaning of life.
• Much Ado About Nothing (film)
• Oldboy: a fight scene several minutes long involving many participants is filmed in a single take.
• The Piano Teacher: a number of long takes, most famously the "graphically intense in power of suggestion" bathroom sequence with two lovers.
• Platform
• The Player: the opening shot is 8 minutes long and moves through a Hollywood studio; one character, Walter, talks with two other characters about famous "long shots" in film history, mentioning Orson Welles' six and a half minute take in Touch of Evil and a shot in The Sheltering Sky.
• Primer
• Pulp Fiction: A few long takes are featured in this movie, such as Jules and Vincent's various conversations, and Marcellus Wallace's bribe and speech.
• The Passenger
• Pride & Prejudice (2005 film): The conversation/dance between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy at the Meryton Ball is done all in one take. Also, there is one long take lasting almost three minutes during the Netherfield ball that sweeps through the entire set.
• Rear Window
• The Red and the White: Consists entirely of long takes.
• Reno 911!: Miami: Scene with Deputy S. Jones walking around in front of motel, looking for his room.
• Reservoir Dogs: The scene where Mr. Blonde walks to his car to pick up the gasoline is filmed in a single long take.
• Rope: consists of only 10 takes, the edits between half of which are hidden, sometimes making two or three takes look continuous to the untrained eye.
• Russian Ark: a 96 minute film consisting of one single long take, made possible with the use of digital cameras.
• Sabado: A Chilean independent movie with a length of 60 minutes due to the duration of a tape of MiniDv, it tells the story of a failed wedding with just one long take.
• Satantango: a film consisting of 150 shots in a 7 1/2 hour running time. Most shots are on average 5 minutes long.
• Scarface (1932): the opening shot.
• Secrets and Lies: the scene where Cynthia realises that she is Hortense's mother is almost 8 minutes long.
• Serenity: The shot introducing the main characters over the main titles seems to last roughly four and a half minutes, but is actually broken into two, with the second taking place on a separate set. The break is disguised by a whip pan when Nathan Fillion's character walks to the lower deck.
• The Shoe: Consists entirely of long takes.
• Sleep
• Snake Eyes: the shot at the beginning is seemingly 15 minutes long, although it contains several edits disguised by whip pans.
• Songs from the Second Floor
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith: the opening shot is a 76 second long take of the Battle of Coruscant; it is over two and a half minutes if one includes the film's opening crawl.
• "Stay (I Missed You)," Lisa Loeb's 1994 Billboard Hot 100 number one single, has a video which is a single long take of Loeb, directed by Ethan Hawke.
• Strange Days: The "intense, you-are-there first person view" opening shot at the beginning seem to run 4 minutes long, although the sequence contain edits assisted by clever production set disguises combined with whip pans.
• Sunrise: a long take follows the Woman from the City as she walks into the moonlit field to meet with the Husband.
• Taste of Cherry: filmed almost entirely in long takes.
• Tenebrae
• The Third Man: the final sequence involves a long take as Alida Valli's character walks up a road toward Joseph Cotten's.
• Through the Olive Trees
• Timecode: four 90-minute long takes were filmed simultaneously and are presented on screen as such, using a split-screen effect
• Tom-Yum-Goong (The Protector): a long take of 3:46 takes place where Tony Jaa ascends a multi-leveled building via circular ramps and incapacitates numerous gang members in elaborately choreographed fight sequences that send men flying off tiers and Tony Jaa positioning himself in one instance, above a doorway, all without a change of shot.
• Touch of Evil: the opening features a six and a half minute long take with a moving camera.
• Twelve Angry Men: the shot where the individual jurors mingle and meet prior to their debate.
• Ulysses' Gaze
• Under Capricorn
• War of the Worlds: the car shot during the family's escape is 2½ minutes long, and the camera travels in, out and around the vehicle (assisted by visual effects).
• Wavelength: a 45-minute long take of a slow zoom in toward a picture on a wall
• Week End: a 10-minute tracking shot along a traffic jam.
• Werckmeister Harmonies: a film with only 39 shots in a 145 minute running time.
• The West Wing
• What Time is it There?: Consists entirely of long takes.
• The Wizard of Oz: The establishing long take of Munchkinland by director Victor Fleming runs just over one-minute and uses a moving camera mounted on a crane.
• The X-Files, episode "Triangle": filmed in several long takes, and composited closely to appear as only four takes, each eleven minutes long.
• Yi-Yi

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Music videos with long takes (one-takes and faux)

• Fastball - Fire Escape
• Foo Fighters - My Hero
• Green Day - Reduntant
• OK Go - Here It Goes Again
• Radiohead - No Surprises
• R.E.M. - Imitation of Life
• Semisonic - Closing Time
• Spice Girls - Wannabe
• The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
• U2 - Numb
• "Weird Al" Yankovic - Bob

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Directors known for long takes

• Chantal Akerman
• Woody Allen
• Robert Altman
• Paul Thomas Anderson
• Theo Angelopoulos
• Michelangelo Antonioni
• Alfonso Cuarón
• Brian De Palma
• Federico Fellini
• Michel Gondry
• Michael Haneke^[2]
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Hou Hsiao-Hsien
• Miklós Jancsó
• Abbas Kiarostami
• Stanley Kubrick
• Vincente Minnelli
• Kenji Mizoguchi
• Max Ophuls
• Martin Scorsese
• Steven Spielberg
• Quentin Tarantino
• Andrei Tarkovsky^[3]
• Béla Tarr
• Tsai Ming-liang
• Gus Van Sant
• Andy Warhol
• Orson Welles
• Joss Whedon
• Robert Zemeckis

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External links

• Six Examples of the Long Take (w/ video)
• Cinemetrics - a statistical analysis of shot length
• Top 15 Long Takes at List Universe
• 25 Great Long Takes at Daily Film Dose

References

• A History of Narrative Film by David Cook (ISBN 0-393-97868-0)

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Notes