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Television sitcoms often use several cameras at once

Multi-camera shoots record a scene in one continuous run before a live audience A multi-camera comedy is performed in sequence on a lit set with three or four cameras, a live audience and a director switching between them. A single-camera show shoots each angle separately, like a film, and can take days for one scene. The multi-camera method is faster and preserves the energy of a live performance. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Multi-camera shoots record a scene in one continuous run before a live audience. The figure is taken from Paley Center for Media, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.