Above: Sunrise (1927), dir. F.W. Murnau. Fox Films Cinematographer Karl Struss created this tracking shot of this scene using an electric powered camera. Struss shot while he hung suspended from the ceiling. The moon and sky hang on a painted backdrop.
Above: Sunrise (1927), dir. F.W. Murnau. Fox Films
Rochus Gliese designed the Sunrise city set as a warren of low rise buildings and bottleneck streets. Fox Films executed Gliese's plan and released Sunrise on November 7, 1927.
	Above: Four Sons (1928), dir. John Ford. Fox Films Same mist, same marsh, same painted backdrop. Same studio, same approach. The camera tracks here seems to take up where Struss, shooting Sunrise, left off. Fox cameraman Charles G. Clarke or George Schneiderman created this scene.
Above: Four Sons (1928), dir. John Ford. Fox Films
No longer the set for the city of Sunrise, Gleise's set then assumed a new identity. Redressing it as "New York," Fox reused this corner of the set in John Ford's Four Sons. Fox released Four Sons on February 3, 1928.