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but must walk down the street and make a natural turn. It was
quite understandable that he could disappear around the turn.
The action had to follow a natural course of events.
Panning shots were very confusing because the audience
didn’t realize what was happening. They thought the items and
details inside the picture were literally moving. You see, the
convention was not accepted. Nor was the idea of a person
sitting still while the camera was brought in to a close-up; this
was a strange thing, this picture growing bigger in your
presence. You know the common way of starting a film: show
the city, narrow it down to a street, narrow it down to one
house, take your camera in through the window, etc. This was
literally interpreted as you walking forward and doing all those
things until you were finally taken in through the window.