Editing Crane shot (section)

== Notable usage==
[[File:Film Shooting From a Crane.jpg|thumb|Shooting from a manual crane]]
* [[D. W. Griffith]]'s ''[[Intolerance (film)|Intolerance]]'' (1916) featured the first ever crane shot for a film.
* Atsuo Tomioka's 1935 film ''The Chorus of a Million'' featured the first iron camera crane, which was created and employed in the film in 1934 by [[Eiji Tsuburaya]].
* [[Leni Riefenstahl]] had a cameraman shoot a half-circle pan shot from a crane for the 1935 Nazi propaganda film ''[[Triumph of the Will]]''.<ref>''Hinter den Kulissen des Reichsparteitag-Films'', Riefenstahl's 1935 book on the making of the film, with many photographs, including an annotated one showing a cameraman on a crane (page 81)</ref>
* A crane shot was used in Orson Welles' 1941 film ''[[Citizen Kane#Special effects|Citizen Kane]]''. Welles also used a crane camera during the iconic opening of ''[[Touch of Evil]]'' (1958). The camera perched on a Chapman crane begins on a close-up of a ticking time bomb and ends three-plus minutes later with a blinding explosion.
* The [[Western (genre)|Western]] ''[[High Noon]]'' (1952) had a famous crane shot. The shot backs up and rises, in order to show Marshal [[Will Kane]] totally alone and isolated on the street.
* The 1964 film by [[Mikhail Kalatozov]], ''[[I Am Cuba]]'' contains two of the most astonishing tracking shots ever attempted.
* In his film ''[[Sympathy for the Devil (1968 film)|Sympathy for the Devil]]'', [[Jean-Luc Godard]] used a crane for almost every shot in the movie, giving each scene a 360-degree tour of the tableau Godard presented to the viewer. In the final scene, he even shows the crane he was able to rent on his limited budget by including it in the scene. This was one of his traits as a filmmaker — showing off his budget — as he did with Brigitte Bardot in ''[[Le Mepris]]'' (''Contempt'').
* The closing take of [[Richard Attenborough]]'s film version of ''[[Oh! What a Lovely War]]'' begins with a single [[war grave]], gradually pulling back to reveal hundreds of identical crosses.
* The 1980 comedy-drama film ''[[The Stunt Man]]'' featured a crane throughout the production of the fictitious film-within-a-film (with the director played by [[Peter O'Toole]]).
* The television comedy ''[[Second City Television]]'' (''SCTV'') uses the concept of the crane shot as comedic material. After using a crane shot in one of the first NBC-produced episodes, the network complained about the exorbitant cost of renting the crane. SCTV writers responded by making the "crane shot" a ubiquitous symbol of production excess while also lampooning network executives who care nothing about artistic vision and everything about the bottom line. At the end of the second season, an inebriated Johnny LaRue ([[John Candy]]) is given his very own crane by Santa Claus, implying he would be able to have a crane shot whenever he wanted it. 
* Director [[Dario Argento]] included an extensive scene in ''[[Tenebrae (film)|Tenebrae]]'' where the camera seemingly crawled over the walls and up a house wall, all in one seamless take. Due to its length, the tracking shot ended up being the production's most difficult and complex part to complete.
* The 2004 [[Johnnie To]] film ''[[Breaking News (2004 film)|Breaking News]]'' opens with an elaborate seven-minute single-take crane shot.
* Director [[Dennis Dugan]] frequently uses top-to-bottom crane shots in his comedy films.
* A camera crane panoramic master interior live shot opens ''[[The Late Late Show with James Corden]]'' after the pre-recorded exterior aerial-shot.<ref name="youtube=e6gAmWD9ww8">{{cite web |author1=The Late Late Show with James Corden |title=Open, intro, 2021) |website=[[YouTube]] |date=18 November 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6gAmWD9ww8 |access-date=2 February 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' uses a crane to pan the camera over the audience.