Traditionally, a tracking shot was achieved by mounting the camera on a wheeled camera stand called a dolly and for that reason these shots are also sometimes called dolly shots. Nowadays ...

[Brian Grabski] was asked by a friend to design and build a dolly that would move a camera during a time-lapse sequence. Above you can see the product of his toils, and the videos after the break ...

We’d call it a robot, but [Eric Buijs] calls it a dolly. [Eric] bought a Makeblock starter robot kit last year, but never did anything with it. He recently wanted a camera dolly to help shoot ...

The famous "Vertigo Shot" in the film created the feeling ... commonplace within thriller and horror films, the “dolly zoom” ...