On a slightly related note of continious takes...

I had a quick look to see what the longest single take in the movies is and it seems to be a film called 'Timecode' which seems to have been shot 15 times each in a continious take http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220100/trivia.

But also the film Serenitys opening shot is about 8 minutes continious from one steadycam and I think there is a strange Russian film that the name escapes me that was shot from one camera in one long hour and a hald take with no cuts at all (but it is supposed to be terrible)

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