A Perilous Proceeding
A Perilous Proceeding
| 30 September 1901 (USA)
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At a building being constructed at Broadway and 13th Street in Manhattan, a boom or crane from which a platform is suspended on a cable first pulls the platform up, then swings it out from the top floor where it's been resting, and then gradually lowers it seven-plus stories to the ground below. On it at least 11 men stand or hold on to the cable. All wear dark coveralls and hats. They wave toward the camera. At the ground and on the lower floors, other workers are busy. This picture was taken by means of a special apparatus which enabled the camera to follow the men as they were lowered to the ground.

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Inclubabu

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Smartorhypo

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Roxie

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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Billy Ollie

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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boblipton

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.

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