Every Shot Is a Great Shot
But I believe my favorite is an early shot when the camera becomes the man's point-of-view. It's a subjective tracking shot and then as the man enters the shot through the right frame, it gradually becomes a typical (in terms of years later) objective tracking shot following his course through the marsh. I'll never forget hearing Karl Struss talk about filming "Sunrise" in 1927 at a LACMA 50th anniversary screening in 1977. He described using models of the sets in order to plan and rehearse the sweeping tracking shots with the camera suspended above. The big city set was definitely one of the models he referred to. What an evening!
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