Scott Lord Silent Film: Gosta Ekman in Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926)

Janet Bergstrom, University of California, writes that with the film "Faust", among others, Murnau had "unchained the camera" with moving shots that seemed unique...sweeping the audience's emotions with them". Of these moving shots, Bergstrom brings to our attention tracking shots that were photographed above their subject by having rails mounted on the ceiling of the studio. silent filmSilent Horror Film