When filming Rope (1948), Alfred Hitchcock intended for the film to have the effect of one long continuous take, but the cameras available could hold no more than 1000 feet of 35 mm film. As a result, each take used up to a whole roll of film and lasts up to 10 minutes. Many takes end with a dolly shot to a featureless surface (such as the back of a character’s jacket), with the following take beginning at the same point by zooming out. The entire film consists of only 11 shots.

This film is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as a single continuous shot through the use of long takes. In film-

making, a long take is a shot lasting much longer than the conventional editing pace either of the film itself or of films in general. Significant camera movement and blocking are elements of long-taking, and elements used in the film “Rope”.