dolly shot

noun

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The views are as cinematic as a Fellini dolly shot. Paula Conway, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025 World premiered at Canneseries, the episode sums up the high cinematic style brought to the series, with Hirschbiegel employing anamorphic lenses, an 8o-second dolly shot or 30-second closeup to construct a social horror story and play with audience expectation, as Von Schirach before him. John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Apr. 2022 Tracks had been laid for a dolly shot. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021 After this interaction, the film proceeded to the famous dolly shot that ends the film, to the photo on the wall of the Overlook Hotel. Jason Bailey, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021

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First Known Use

1933, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of dolly shot was in 1933

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“Dolly shot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolly%20shot. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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