tracking shot

noun

: a scene photographed from a moving dolly

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But the evening’s most memorable moment was its first: a stunning tracking shot of Regina King sauntering into the station, overlaid with funky opening credits. Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025 The most telling evidence of this is a sequence which cuts from Eadweard Muybridge’s pioneering photos of a horse in movement to a tracking shot of Lavant gloriously running and dancing down a Paris street in Mauvais Sang. Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 But pulling off a tracking shot of that nature required a Herculean effort. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2024 Filmmaker Parker Finn’s essentially standalone entry takes off at warp speed with an athletic tracking shot of a bloodbath. Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tracking shot 

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1940, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tracking shot was circa 1940

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“Tracking shot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tracking%20shot. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

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