Motion picture cameramen had been moving their cameras for half a decade by this point -- usually by placing it on a train or boat and moving it past a scene. This was called a panorama shot at the time; this is an early example of what is called a vertical panorama shot today, one in which the camera is rotated for a wider field of view. The term derives from painted panoramas.
Here the point of the movie is that we get to watch people being carried on a derrick down from the top of construction site. The fact that they could do this was the point of the piece. Eventually it would become a technique to permit people to move around without cutting to the next scene and thus part of the grammar of cinema.
Here the point of the movie is that we get to watch people being carried on a derrick down from the top of construction site. The fact that they could do this was the point of the piece. Eventually it would become a technique to permit people to move around without cutting to the next scene and thus part of the grammar of cinema.
