Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.
Highly Overrated But Still Good
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
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View MoreMotion 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.
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