dolly shot
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dolly shot
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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As crucial as his contributions to Lee’s movies are — emotionally, they’re up there with the director’s famous dolly shot — Blanchard has never won an Academy Award for original score.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2019
The movie’s elegantly roving visual style began in part when a Steadicam wouldn’t work and cinematographer Tobias Datum suggested a very long dolly shot instead.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2017
He also makes use of a few of his own signature flourishes, including his calling-card dolly shot.
From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2015
In his phenomenal Before the Revolution, made in 1963 when he was 22, Bertolucci included a funny, affectionate cafe conversation during which a film intellectual says flatly that "the dolly shot is a moral statement."
From Time Magazine Archive
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