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* ''[[Serenity]]'' introduces the crew by tracking through the ship in a oner. It actually needed two shots because of the configuration of the ship sets. The cut is disguised with a [[Whip Pan]].
* This was a trademark of [[Orson Welles]]' work:
** There are two long takes in ''[[Citizen Kane]]''. It was the first time it had ever been done for narrative purposes rather than technical limitations. At the time, no one had ever thought to do it. As a newbie to film making, Welles didn't know that, and impressed everyone by pulling it off.
** There's a four-minute continuous take in ''The Stranger'' that starts in the middle of the road and then follows the actors through the forest.
** The opening sequence of [[Orson Welles]]' ''[[Touch of Evil]]'' features one of the most famous continuous camera shots. It's also an impressively long [[Tracking Shot]].
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** None of them are real cuts, though- the camera had to be changed and stopped, and the action had to be broken off, but the actual shot is continuous.
* [[Quentin Tarantino]] examples:
** The final, Tarantino-directed segment of ''[[Four Rooms]]''.
** In ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', the scene with Jules and Vincent in the apartment building hallway at the beginning is one shot. A shorter one follows Vince into and through Jackrabbit Slim's.
** In ''[[Jackie Brown]]'' the opening credits with Jackie on a moving sidewalk were a single shot.
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** And again, in ''Y Tu Mama Tambien'', during the scene where the boys are driving the car.
*** Also, while less impressive from a technical point of view (there's no tracking), the scene where the boys are hitting on Luisa while watching the mariachis.
** Another example from Cuaron: the kiss under the rain in ''Great Expectations''.
** Let's not forget his sequence in ''Paris, je t'aime'', called "Parc Monceau." The whole short film was one continuous shot.
* [[John Woo]]'s ''Hard-Boiled'' includes a two-minute and forty-two second long take of Tequila (Chow Yun-Fat) and Alan (Tony Leung) clearing room after room of bad guys during the big shootout at the hospital. The Criterion edition of this Hong Kong action classic actually has a chapter dedicated to this sequence called "2 Minutes, 42 Seconds."
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* ''Cannon Fodder'', the third segment of Katsuhiro Otomo's ''Memories'' is over twenty minutes long, but consists of a single, long shot.
* ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]'' has a scene which appears to show Tyler in two places at once, achieved by Brad Pitt running around the back of the camera very quickly as it pans round.
* The scene in ''[[Goodfellas]]'' where Henry Hill takes his girlfriend to the nightclub, past the line at the door, in through the kitchen and out into the club is a well known example.
** After three takes, [[Martin Scorsese|Scorsese]]'s assistant director asked if they could take a break because the extras were getting tired. Scorsese had not realized that, to save money, the extras outside the club were also the extras for the interior, and had to run in and get in place while the camera was in the kitchen.
** The reason the shot is so long is that while Scorsese was allowed to film at the real Copacabana club, he couldn't use the main entrance.
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* Perhaps the most disturbing example of The Oner comes in Kubrick's film of ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]'', in which Alex's head is forced into an (obviously full) water trough while he is brutally beaten (complete with zany 'bong' sound effects). Apparently there was actually a breathing apparatus under the water, but it failed to work properly and McDowell did, indeed, nearly drown.
* ''[[Be Kind Rewind]]'' has a nice oner where we see a bunch of films getting edited simultaneously.
* ''All Quiet on the Western Front,'' the 1930 version has a rather long shot of French soldiers getting mowed down.
* While they aren't true oners a lot of older musicals have dance numbers with few cuts. "Fit as a Fiddle" from ''[[Singin' in the Rain|Singin in The Rain]]'' is done in about 4 shots max and "Make 'em Laugh" has a Oner where Donald O'Connor does two back flips in a row off two walls.
** [[Fred Astaire]] insisted on doing his dance numbers this way.
** Busby Berkeley supplied a famous example in ''Lady Be Good.'' Two-thirds of Eleanor Powell's dance to "Fascinating Rhythm" is a single shot.
* ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', [[The Joker]], a hospital, and a lot of bombs, some of them even going off (the trouble he has with the detonator was a [[Throw It In]]).
* ''[[The Longest Day]]'' has an immensely long shot in which a helicopter follows the French commandos storming a few blocks in a long stretch that was masterfully orchestrated.
** I'd say it's the film's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. And this is a three hour film full of awesome moments.
* Propaganda pic ''I Am Cuba'' has some incredibly long takes filmed from the back of moving cars, and in one, which follows the coffin of a dead student through crowded streets, the camera goes up the sides of a building, through the top floor, and then out again along a balcony...{{spoiler|It was done by having the camera passed along a 'bucket line' of volunteers!}}
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* The opening shot of ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'' is the longest CGI generated one-shot, it goes for at least a couple of minutes.
* ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' has a few that might qualify. The ones I can think of is the scene in which the squad enters Neuville, the scene with the halftrack and a shot in the final battle where Mellish, Henderson and Upham move to the second floor of the cafe.
* Kenneth Branagh's 1996 movie version of ''[[Hamlet]]'' features several entire scenes, including ones that span several rooms, shot in a single take as well as most of the soliloquies.
** Branagh appears to like this technique: he used it three years earlier in his adaptation of ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' as well. Roughly the last eight minutes is one continuous shot.
* In the film of the musical [[1776]], the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HD1x_kZRQQ opening scene of Adams descending the staircase from the bell tower, entering the Continental Congress, and delivering his opening monologue] before the first song is all one take. The filmmakers note in the DVD commentary how difficult it was building a camera rig that would give a smooth transition from descending from the ceiling into the Congress chamber. There's a noticeable bump as the camera is wheeled off the extending platform used to film the stairs part of the shot.
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* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Objects in Space," the second-to-last shot of the episode was one long shot over about a minute, showing each member of the crew. It was intended to show that River had been accepted onto the ship as one of the crew, as opposed to a passenger, by having her appear with everyone else on the ship.
** The scene ends with Summer Glau and Jewel Staite in the cargo bay of the ship. Because everything had to go right in one take, if anyone made a mistake, they'd have to start the whole scene over again. When Summer kept screwing up, forcing a reshoot because the ''very last part'' of the long scene (it's about 5–7 minutes long) was screwed up, it necessarily ended up frustrating the other cast members, who, from the other side of the set, would cry out "SUUUUMMER!" whenever she messed up. This became a behind-the-scenes running gag: whenever someone would screw, they'd shout "SUUUUMMER!"
* BBC documentary series ''[[Planet Earth]]'' included a shot of wild African dogs chasing a gazelle. While the pack strategies used by hunting canines was well understood, an entire hunt had never before been filmed from start to finish. The camera crew used a single camera to capture the hunt from a helicopter in one long shot, which is detailed in the "Making Of" featurette on the DVD.
* The filming of the song "The Parking Ticket" from the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'' musical episode was [[wikipedia:Once More, with Feeling (Buffy episode)#Production details|done in one take]]. The camera starts on Giles, Xander and Anya, then pans over to Marti Noxon singing before rejoining the Scoobies' conversation.
** One of the opening scenes of "The Body" was shot as a oner, which adds to the realism of the episode.
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* In the [[Stargate SG-1]] episode "Fallen," one of the first scenes follows Jonas from Level 18, into the elevator, down to Level 28, and into the briefing room, all in one continuous shot. One of the direct-to-video movies, [[Stargate: Continuum]], opens with one of these directly, starting in the Gateroom as one team arrives from offworld, then travels through the base, and back to the Gateroom again as SG-1 prepare to leave.
* Rick Mercer's rants, beginning [[Deliberately Monochrome]] on ''[[This Hour Has 22 Minutes]]'' and continuing (in full color) on the ''[[Rick Mercer Report]]''. Comedienne Elvira Kurtz, on her short lived series ''Popcultured!'', did a bit showing all the work that goes into these Oners, including holding up a mirror to show the cameraman walking backwards and keeping pace with her with a full rig on his shoulder.
* The penultimate ''[[Band of Brothers]]'' episode "Why we Fight" opens with a shot of a violin being taken out of a case. The camera pulls back to reveal the full string quartet playing in a bombed-out German town, and then executes a complicated maneuver around the town square, showing the townsfolk salvaging whatever they can from the rubble, before tilting up to reveal some members of Easy Company standing in what's left of the upper story of a house. The shot only lasts a couple of minutes, but must have taken ages to set up. (The violin also [[Book End|BookEnds]] the end of the episode.)
* In ''[[Community]]'', the opening scene of Season 2 is a continuous panning shot over multiple sets as the characters wake up to the first day of the new college year.
* In ''[[Breaking Bad]]'', Jesse goes through a long explanation of how he's expected to teach the Mexican Cartel how to cook Walt's meth, followed by Walt cruelly refusing to help him, all done in one take with some very impressive acting by Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul.
* The ''[[Da Vinci's Inquest]]'' episode "It's Backwards Day" begins with a ten-minute scene that looks like a full oner, but has at least two edits (a whip pan just before Detective McNab arrives on the scene, and a shot following Officer McNab (the detective's daughter) when she is walking towards a witness for an interview). During this scene, Da Vinci is investigating a hit-and-run by talking to five different people (two uniformed officers, a paramedic, a detective, and an eyewitness), discussing the failure of his "safe injection site" plan with Detective McNab, and flirting with Officer McNab. Even though it's been edited, it's very well executed.
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' is made of these—all the host segments are done in a mere one take, with the exceptions of ones featuring the Mads as they have the cheat of cutting back and forth between the Satellite of Love and the Mads' base. The theater segments, which usually last anywhere from ten to fifteen minutes depending on the placement of host segments and commercials, also have to be done in one take to maintain continuity.
== Music ==
* The vinyl LP ''Needle Time'' by Warsaw Pakt was recorded direct to disc in two continuous, approximately 20-minute takes.
* ''Live In '79'' by [[Cheer Up, Charlie Daniels|Cheer Up Charlie Daniels]] was recorded live in one 26-minute take.
* There was something of a “direct to disc” fad in Canada in the late 70s (i.e.: live recording to a vinyl cutter in one take). The (in)famous pop group Rough Trade’s first album was a direct to disc recording
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* [[Elton John]]'s "I Want Love" is shot like this, following Robert Downey, Jr as he lip-syncs to the song. (Downey, allegedly, kept wanting to gesture with his hands; allegedly, they taped them into his pockets to help him avoid that.)
* Will Young's [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgjz3_will-young-leave-right-now_music Leave Right Now], which took several takes to get right and resulted in a large amount of bruises for a large amount of the cast. Especially Will.
* Inugami Circus Dan's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-3EQoSZCwY Honto ni honto ni gokurosan].
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* [[Janet Jackson]]'s "When I think of You"
* [[Alanis Morrisette]]'s "Head Over Feet"
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZyBmN6hWsk "Second Chance"] by Peter Bjorn and John. Much like the video for Mutemath's "Typical", this video features the band performing the song frontwards as various things are poured onto them in reverse. Like the Mutemath video, the band had to [[Back to Front|lip-synch the song backwards]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnHlGONToIc "Happiness"] by [[Goldfrapp]]. Appears to be one-shot, one has to wonder what kind of fitness is needed for over 3 minutes of bunny hopping.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti1W7Zu8j9k "Anti-D"] by the Wombats. An emotionless Murph walks through a suburb while strange and improbable things happen around him until, halfway through, he is mauled by some doctors. They leave, all the colorful characters from before help him up into a chair they've suddenly acquired, lift the chair onto their shoulders, and carry him down the street, throwing confetti and holding balloons. All of this is one shot.
* The drama version of "It's You" by [[Super Junior]] has the camera follow each of the members around a small town square as they walk in and out of the frame for their solos. At the end, they all walk back into frame and come together at the intersection.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o9dXLNuXic "Who Dat"] by J. Cole.
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