{"id":751,"date":"2007-11-01T02:24:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T07:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/touch-of-evil-opening-shot\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T02:24:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T07:24:50","slug":"touch-of-evil-opening-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/touch-of-evil-opening-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch of Evil Opening Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.variety.com\/thompsononhollywood\/2007\/10\/touch-of-evil-o.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Thompson highlights the justly famous opening tracking shot of Orson Welles&#8217; <i>Touch of Evil<\/i><\/a>.  And it&#8217;s worth reposting.  When <i>Touch of Evil<\/i> was made in 1958, this was the longest tracking shot ever created, a record which stood for a long time; I believe Robert Altman&#8217;s <i>The Player<\/i> broke it, but <i>Touch of Evil<\/i>&#8216;s is better for my money.  And can I just say, in this current era when most movies have an average shot length of about two and a half seconds, how refreshing it is to watch a shot that lasts for three minutes and fifteen seconds?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0nn1VO1HIPk&#038;rel=1&#038;border=0\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Thompson highlights the justly famous opening tracking shot of Orson Welles&#8217; Touch of Evil. And it&#8217;s worth reposting. When Touch of Evil was made in 1958, this was the longest tracking shot ever created, a record which stood for a long time; I believe Robert Altman&#8217;s The Player broke it, but Touch of Evil&#8216;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[695,9],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1542,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/touch-of-evil-aspect-ratio-outcry\/","url_meta":{"origin":751,"position":0},"title":"Touch of Evil Aspect Ratio Outcry","author":"Jandy","date":"October 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't really have anything to add to this discussion, but I have to love the fact that cinephiles are up in arms over the the new Universal edition of Touch of Evil, which has three different cuts of the film (the 1958 studio-cut theatrical version, a pre-studio-interference preview version,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Film&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Film","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/687uvb.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":34021,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/2014-tcm-film-festival-touch-of-evil\/","url_meta":{"origin":751,"position":1},"title":"2014 TCM Film Festival: Touch of Evil","author":"Jandy","date":"April 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I knew this TCM Film Festival was going to be a brief one for me, as having a one-year-old daughter lessens ones flexibility considerably, even with a very considerate husband. 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