Film General : A 1 hour 39 minute movie was made in a single continuous shot.

A 1 hour 39 minute movie was made in a single continuous shot.

It's called Russian Ark (2002).




Any of you guys seen this? Looks kinda cool… might be boring though.

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Apparently, stupid people don't know they're stupid.

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There must be some kind of catch. I doubt it has any kind of narrative, that would be close to impossible.

That would suck if an actor forgets their lines 1 hour and 37 minutes into the film, and the director has to yell "Cut!" and start all over from the beginning again.

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The film displays 33 rooms of the museum, which are filled with a cast of over 2,000 actors and three orchestras. Russian Ark was recorded in uncompressed high definition video using a Sony HDW-F900 camera. The information was not recorded compressed to tape as usual, but uncompressed onto a hard disk which could hold 100 minutes which was carried behind the cameraman as he traveled from room to room, scene to scene. According to In One Breath, the documentary on the making of the film, four attempts were made. The first failed at the five-minute mark. After two more failed attempts, they were left with only enough battery power for one final take. The four hours of daylight available were also nearly gone. Fortunately, the final take was a success and the film was completed at 90 minutes. Tilman Büttner, the director of photography and Steadicam operator, executed the shot on 23 December 2001.

In a 2002 interview, Büttner said that film sound was recorded separately. "Every time I did the take, or someone else made a mistake, I would curse, and that would have gotten in, so we did the sound later." Lighting directors of photography on the film were Bernd Fischer and Anatoli Radionov. The director later rejected Büttner's nomination for a European Film Academy award, believing that only the whole film should gain an award.

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