The title tells you what the movie is about, but it doesn't say anything about the interesting technique on display. This is pretty much near the birth of the pan shot, in which the camera is turned on its axis to give the audience a wider - or in the case of the vertical pan, a taller - field of vision. Before this, a pan shot or panorama in movies referred to any moving shot, including when a camera would be on a moving train as it moved along.
Billy Bitzer was also experimenting with the pan shot at Biograph, most notably in his movie about the excavations involved in building Pennsylvania Station in New York City. Clearly, this was a technique whose time had come.
Billy Bitzer was also experimenting with the pan shot at Biograph, most notably in his movie about the excavations involved in building Pennsylvania Station in New York City. Clearly, this was a technique whose time had come.
