The earliest hollywood cinema movie cameras were strapped immediately on the mount of their tripod or other support, with only the crudest type of levelling devices provided, in the style of the still-camera tripod heads of the hollywood era. The first film cinema cameras were thus effectively static during the time of filming, and therefore the very first equipment movements were the result of fixing the camera on a moving truck. The earliest sighted, well before cinema and hollywood, of these was movie shot by a Lumière cameraman from the rear platform of a train exiting Jerusalem some time in 1896, and by 1898 there were ,amy more cinema films shot inside moving trains, Hollywood was beconing. Despite listed within the ambiguous heading of “panoramas” in the sales catalogues of the era, those films shot immediately forward looking out from the front of a railway engine were usually referred to as “phantom rides”.
In 1897, Robert W. Paul had the very first real rotateable camera mount made to be put 1on top of|on} the tripod, so that one was able to track the passing parade of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in singular uninterrupted cinema shot. The device had the equipment mounted on a vertical setting which could be moved with a worm gear activated by turning a handle, so Paul put it on public sale the next year. Films taken using such a "panning" head were also referred to as ‘panoramas’ in hollywood catalogues of the very first decade of cinema.
The regular pattern for early film studios in Hollywood was dictated by the studio which Georges Méliès built sometime in 1891. This had a glass roof and three glass walls designed after the model of large studios for regular photography, and it was fitted with delicate cotton blinds that were stretched below the roof to counteract the direct ray of the sun on brilliant afternoons. The soft overall light devoid of real shadows that this setup produced, and which also exists naturally on mildly overcast days, became the standard for cinema film production in hollywood movie studios for the next few years.
Unique among all the one minute long hollywood cinema movies made by the Edison company, which recorded parts of the acts of variety performers for its Kinetoscope cinema viewing machines, was The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. The film depicted a person dressed as Mary putting her head on the execution block before a small group of locals in British dress.
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