Thank you somuch🙏❤

I still don't get it

When you try to get out of the industry, videos like these fuck you up and make you a fanatic of cinema

Carl would have loved this shot...

Thank you Cooke optics for providing this amazing presentation!

These men are bloody gods, and Contact is one of the greatest films ever made. Hats off.

Such an elegant and well-conceived shot, that I had to watch the explanation twice before I understood the trick of it

Thank you for this! It's like magicians revealing their illusions after many, many years. I had been confounded by this shot for all this time. Genius!

Back when Contact was originally released, my friend Chuck claimed that the popcorn on the floor was in the form of a constellation. We thought he was just full of it. Thanks to this video, it turns out he was right. Chuck, if you read this, I owe you an apology.

This is a very helpful conversation, thanks!

Love his sense of humor lol

Great talk

The subtle change to slow motion is very cool. Saw this when I was eleven and this shot was what made me realize film could really be stylish and artistic visually as well as telling a story. Before that I never really noticed the technical aspects of a shot.

Legend.

Great video about a great cinematographer working on a great effing movie! THAT shot still baffles me to this day! When it was shown on TV, I asked people around me the following day what they thought about that amazing shot, and nobody knew what I was talking about... I dunno if it's a compliment to the movie itself (they were taken by it), or if people just don't pay attention to the poetry of film making...

My favorite shot of all time❤ this is pure art. Bravo!

¡Amo esta Pelicula, y en particular esta Escena. Tambien en la escena de recepción de la Señal y el angulo de la camara por sobre el carro de Ellie en movimiento.!

I love this movie

0:33 but was he influenced by Phil's 20 years in the can?

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I alway thought it was filmed the and backwards. She starts at the Open Med cabinet, closes the door then run backward. The way the girl runs and the bounce of her hair seems odd unnatural. Which would happen if you've tried running backward. And it would look very strange once reversed. Obvi. she couldn't run backward down the stairs (dangerous) so I thought the bathroom and hall was real, but the transition down the stair was cgi. When in fact the girl was still running backward and had to turn slightly to her left at the top of the would be stairs and foyer.

Even with Don Burgess' great breakdown of this shot, I'm still not quite sure I understand how the fk they did it. LOL.

this is purely beautiful work

I still don’t get it

A great "performance" movie. Not much of a story.

The hands don't match each other's position when reflected in the mirror though. The full body hand is slightly quicker at reaching for the cabinet's handle than the foreground hand.

One of the best shots in cinema history!

I love this movie from start to finish. It captures the kind of chaos that would ensue if something like this happened

Flop the staircase? I didn’t understand that part.

I dont understand what this man is saying

This shot always blew my mind. Thanks for sharing the secret. Had to watch twice to get it.

Dude is talking way too slow 🤣

The picture in the mirror at the end is a gut-punch.

Seamless except for the lighting change...when she rounds the corner, the key lighting ramps up big time.

Ah ha! You can see where her hand pantomimes grasping the door. I have ALWAYS WONDERED how this shot was done. I can usually figure it out, but this one had me flummoxed just because it's a tracking shot. Hop to blue screen... OK.

Surely this shoot is fantastic...that's an intro. Oo'

Contact sucked. An alien race invaded the mind of a woman pushing her to spend billions of dollars constructing a device to make contact. When it was finally constructed, the contact left no evidence which meant that the the main character was a complete fraud. So dumb. She learned absolutely nothing because the aliens were so arrogant that they didn't even appear as themselves because she wouldn't be able to handle seeing a being that didn't look like a familiar human. Such complete garbage. I hated that movie.

Too bad the movie was a mindfuck with a very creepy Matthew McConnaughey

All that work totally paid off - I literally remember seeing it in the cinema & thinking “wait - what tf did I just see?? Even now it stands up as a legitimately genius shot concept that was flawlessly executed. Contact really stands up as a true, credible, smart classic - the opening shot also absolutely blew my mind back in the day. Just amazing. Bob Zemeckis is such a visionary filmmaker. Hats off to the entire cast & crew on that movie. 🫡

Unless they study this stuff most people have no idea how complex film making is

i was wondering how they pulled this off, very interesting and well done shot

A 1997 movie still has in 2024 one of the best visual FX I've ever seen.

apart from how she looked like she was running on the spot with her arm movements which somewhat jolted the immersion - it was a great shot! great movie!

Thanks for the word champ

The girl running with her hands clenched looks really fake. Also, no one has all the prescription labels facing out in their medicine cabinet.

I always found this scene to be brilliant, amazing and often wondered how they did it. Thanks for posting.

You always know someone knows their shit when they understand that you have to shoot above your intended delivery resolution if you want it to look its best. For that reason, the people that say you don't need more than a 4K camera are all phocking ree-todds.

Seriously? I couldn't even watch more than 30 seconds. Get to the fucking point.

I assume that the final result here is in fact two shots, and the girl reaches toward the camera, then the cut, and then the hand opening the door.

The movie, just like Carl Sagan's vision, was so much ahead of its time that, if mankind ever had choose a piece of cinematography to represent us, our hopes, our dreams, our struggles, our discord, our fears, our tenacity and outright grit to fight for our beliefs centered around this very monumental event of our first contact, in our first contact with an advanced alien race, the way we attached the gold plated phonograph and pictorial plaque to the Voyager 1 & 2 space probes, the movie 'Contact' would be our perfect 'calling card'. As a human, I'm very proud to live in the times and progress stage of our civilization that coincides with the advent of the visionary outlook of people like Carl Sagan and the producers of this movie to bring into our race's focus the importance of being ready for exactly this kind of eventuality.