The longest single shot in Raiders of the Lost Ark

Vashi Nedomansky is a film editor, born in Czechoslovakia, who defected with his parents at the age of four. He grew up in Toronto and Detroit before settling in Los Angeles. He is known as the editor of Sharknado 2: The Second One and An American Carol. Vashi was a professional hockey player for 10 years. He says,

This 101-second shot from Raiders of the Lost Ark is the single longest shot from the film. Using motivated camera movement, staging actors in different layers of depth and then altering the actor closest to camera... Steven Spielberg and DP Douglas Slocombe crafted an emotional scene with no cuts whatsoever.

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The adventures of Douglas Slocombe

Douglas Slocombe was the Director of Photography on some 80 films, including Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The Blue Max (1966), The Lion in Winter (1968), The Italian Job (1969), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), The Lady Vanishes (1979), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). He was nominated for an Academy Award three times, and for a BAFTA ten times, winning three BAFTAs.

He was raised in France, but returned to the UK in 1933, where he became a freelance journalist and photographer. Footage he shot in Poland and Amsterdam was used in Herbert Kline's documentary Lights Out in Europe (1940).

Here is a short documentary tracing his remarkable career.

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