The camera tracks a character into a crowded pool party, dips completely underwater, and surfaces in one unbroken shot.

Category: Reference Homage

Timestamp: 00:39:15

Paul Thomas Anderson executed this incredibly difficult tracking shot as a direct technical homage to Mikhail Kalatozov's 1964 cinematic masterpiece "I Am Cuba." Kalatozov's film features a legendary, nearly identical continuous sequence where the camera floats above a rooftop beauty pageant before descending down into a swimming pool.

The camera tracks a character into a crowded pool party, dips completely underwater, and surfaces in one unbroken shot. in Boogie Nights

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