An Introduction to Film

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The crane shot in Touch of Evil These stills from the
opening crane shot in Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil(1958;
cinematographer: Russell Metty) show the progress of the
camera over a wide-ranging space through a continuous long
shot that ends only at the point where the car blows up [1––7].

A reaction shot of Mike and Susan Vargas (Charlton Heston

and Janet Leigh) follows [8], and as the Vargases run toward

the site of the explosion, the mystery at the heart of the

movie begins to unfold.