20 Coolest Tracking Shots In Movie History

By today's standards the tracking shot everyone remembers from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is about as simplistic as they come. That said, more than most directors Kubrick understood that simplistic often meant iconic.

Garret Brown's steadicam work on The Shining has become the stuff of movie legend, so much so in fact that he was invited to contribute to an audio commentary for the film (which, sadly, makes for pretty dry listening). 

Here are several examples of his camera tracking young Danny around the overlook hotel, but it's the final brief track around the corner revealing the ghostly girls which remains one of the most famous shots in cinema history.