When it hit cinemas in 1948, Alfred Hitchcock claimed his film Rope was one long continuous take, but it wasn't really because Hitchcock was a big, fat liar. Since then there have been real one shot movies- Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark, Mike Figgis' Timecode- but they are so mind-numbingly shit I'm amazed anyone has bothered to verify their veracity.
Music videos are the ideal format for one shot trickery and as a result there are loads of them, most of which are not shit, like the whirling ...
NME - Pinglewood — When it hit cinemas in 1948, Alfred Hitchcock claimed his film Rope was one long continuous take, but it wasn't really because Hitchcock was a big, fat liar. Since then t... more info