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This shooting technique was popularized by [[Aaron Sorkin]], who used it first on ''[[Sports Night (TV)|Sports Night]]'' and developed the technique further on ''[[The West Wing]]''. It's also common in computer-animated works, where it appears to serve as a 3-D alternative to the [[Wraparound Background]].

 

 

== Film ==

* Factors heavily into ''[[Law and Order]]'', and to a lesser extent, its spinoffs. An ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch joked that the first rule for an extra on that show was "never stop moving."

* This method also appears often on ''[[House (TV)|House]]'', and has been [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] on at least two occasions, one of which Wilson points out they ended up back where they started, and another where House explains to a camera crew filming his team trying to diagnose the patient of the week that their walking around creates the illusion of the plot moving forward.

** They parodied it once, too.

{{quote| '''Liz''': Can you walk and talk?<br />

* Countless times on ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'' and ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]''. Corridors are the ubitiquous set for this, often while giving [[Techno Babble]].

* Used and played with in ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]''. JD is apparently so familiar with his Walk and Talk with Dr. Cox that he can run off to check on patients and get back without him noticing.

* Any show that takes place inside a school, if they have the budget for a long enough hallway

** Which is completely unrealistic, especially in high schools where people either walk like they're a lame, deaf, and blind or they travel in packs, blocking the hallways from wall to wall. Not to mention having to avoid groups of ''other'' people trying to walk and talk...

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