How do cameras stay hidden in movies?

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Like when you watch a movie and the camera is inside a car and it always switches angles but you don’t see any of the cameras. Or when it shows it in first person and the actor is looking at a mirror but there is no camera shown.

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> it always switches angles but you don’t see any of the cameras.

These are two different takes, the cameras are moved in between.

> the actor is looking at a mirror but there is no camera shown.

The actor is filmed in front of a non reflective mirror, then from the front (to capture what the reflections would look like) and the two are composited afterward.

Or its CGI.

[edit] [There is a serie on YouTube where a bunch of VFX artist react to movie shots and discuss some of these techniques](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4WrKeoeZhk) It’s not very technical, but give a good grasp on how some of these shots are made.

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