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== [[Film]] ==
* The silent film ''[[Sunrise (film)|Sunrise]]'', and its director F.W. Murnau, were largely responsible for introducing this trope to Hollywood.
* ''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]'': it starts with Black Widow on the back of a Chitauri on a flying sled, controlling him. Iron Man flies by her and he blasts a couple of aliens on the ground. He lands next to and fights alongside Captain America, then flies up the side of a building where Hawkeye is on the roof fighting off aliens. Hawkeye shoots an arrow and the camera follows it as it hits a Chitauri sled. It falls and a leviathan passes by where the Hulk and Thor are on it fighting aliens. The Hulk stabs the leviathan with a big piece of debris, and Thor hammers it in. This brings the leviathan crashing into Grand Central Station.
* In the first ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' movie, there's an epic helicopter shot that pulls up to the Chunnel Train, then through a window into a compartment. There's a similar shot in ''The Birdcage'', starting actoss the ocean, up to Miami Beach, then uninterrupted into Robin William's club.
* A classic example is seen at the start of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]: [[The Two Towers]]''.
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* The end of ''[[Resident Evil]]'' [[The Movie]] has a particularly good one involving Alice pulling out a shotgun from a police car and cocking it determinedly, and then pulling slowly out revealing a completely devastated Raccoon City.
* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' ends with an epic tracking shot by starting with an overhead of J and L, then pulling away to see the Earth, continuing on past the solar system and the galaxy to show that our galaxy is simply a marble much like the Mac Guffin of the film.
* ''[[Harry Potter and
** The second film has a shot which starts with a distant shot of Hogwarts and zooms in through the roof of the greenhouse, revealing Professor Sprout starting the Herbology class.
* Also [[The Oner]], action movie Tom Yum Goong /The Protector/ Warrior King features a four-minute one-shot elaborate fight sequence that reportedly took eight days to get right in which Tony Jaa fights his way up a building. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc66JwdMWIg&fmt=22 Must be seen to be believed].
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