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Many directors use this as a [[Signature Style]], and is also quite popular to use as the opening or ending shot of a movie or episode.
A variation is to combine this with between scene eye-catches, at least to give the illusion that it is one continuous shot. Another popular variation is where the camera seems to sink into the ground or ceiling to show what is happening on different floors. It is also one of the big signs that a television episode has received a [[Big
A production can also have several very wide camera shots taken from a helicopter and zooming in slightly without actually being one of these shots. The key is how it goes from an extremely wide angle to a reasonable close-up or vice-versa.
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[[Astronomic Zoom]] is a subtrope of this. Not to be confused with a [[Long Take]].
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== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' uses the eye catcher variation using a handful of stock footage bits of moving quickly around the warehouse only to merge the stock footage with original footage as it goes into a specific area.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', the final shot of season 3 has the camera move back from the Fleet, until we see its location in the galaxy, and then moves back to where the Cylons are. Pretty impressive stuff, that.
* The opening shot of the ''[[
** The opening shot of the 2005 reboot tracked in from Earth orbit down into current-day London, and into Rose's bedroom.
* One of the intros to ''[[Babylon 5]]'' shows a person in a spacesuit welding in space. The camera then pulls back to show the enormous titular station next to which the person is just a dot.
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* ''[[Re Boot]]''. It was actually quite common for an episode to begin with a view of Mainframe, then with a series of twists, turns and dizzying angles it focused in on the spot they needed to be in order to begin the story.
* The episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV" has a shot of the Planet Express Ship taking off from New New York, flying around the Earth and landing in LA. All within the space of a few seconds.
* A [[Couch Gag]] from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' features a [[Shout
* ''[[The Thief and The Cobbler (Animation)|The Thief and The Cobbler]]'' has several. One which defies perspective has a zoom which goes through another character's ''eye''; another zooms out from a character's mouth to a "God's eye view" of the areas around the huge city he's in.
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[[Category:Older Than Television]]
[[Category:Epic Tracking Shot]]
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