Greg Goss (gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
> M C Hamster <davolson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 7 May 2008 11:59:51 -0700 (PDT), Nasti J
>><njgillmom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>On May 6, 12:52 pm, M C Hamster <davol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>wrote:
>>>> From today's VSL, this is just a really happy, nice video
>>>> (filmed in one take).
>>>
>>>It was even better when Bobby Van did it 55 years ago. (and
>>>neither one was done in one take)
>>
>>The Bobby Van one (that I did see yesterday but hadn't seen
>>before) has several complete cuts of scene in it, but this one did
>>quite a good job of masking the cuts. One commenter said he was a
>>film student and didn't see where cuts could have been placed, and
>>I got seduced by him and imagining it to be a single take. I
>>thought it possible for Goldfrapp to even scoot from scene to
>>scene just in time. Now I'm not quite as happy, knowing it wasn't
>>one take.
>
> That insanely long take behind the titles in "The Player" in 89 or
> so? Was that really a single take, or just edited so well a
> civilian couldn't catch it?
If I recall it was really done as a single take--a tribute to Orson
Welles' opening shot in A Touch of Evil.
--
Opus the Penguin
I can't remember the specifics but it's probably safe to blame the
French. - N. Jill Marsh
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