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* For the first three and a half minutes, Music/TheFall's "Nine Out Of Ten" consists of electric guitar and vocals. It seems to end at that point, but then there's a brief pause and another five minutes of just guitar. It sounds as though there was an alternate take of the guitar part tacked on to the end of the recording and they just left it in.

* "Sitting And Smiling", a series of Website/{{YouTube}} videos, that are just a guy, well [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin sitting and smiling]]...for '''four hours straight'''. Not even breaking character when [[a literal burglar broke into his house]] when he was doing one of these. Luckily, the robber [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere immediately left]] upon seeing him. [[https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminBennetttt/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid Yes, these are real]] and they've acquired ''millions'' of views.

* A hidden track repeat happens at the end of Music/DavidBowie's album ''Music/DiamondDogs'', where one second of the song "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" keeps looping, leaving it with NoEnding; this was the result of a ThrowItIn moment (the tape got stuck]]).

* "Sitting And Smiling", a series of Website/{{YouTube}} videos, that are just a guy, well [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin sitting and smiling]]...for '''four hours straight'''. [[https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminBennetttt/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid Yes, these are real]] and they've acquired ''millions'' of views.

* One of the biggest complaints about ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', which not only makes a habit of making frequent cutaway gags to something completely irrelevant but also makes them go on for way too long. Including, at one point, a minute-long clip of Conway Twitty performing for no reason. The final time they do this, they show Conway Twitty singing an entire song, from start to finish.

* WebAnimation/{{hololive}} English member Ceres Fauna fell into this while streaming ''VideoGame/EuroTruckSimulator'' and somehow [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVZzCLXC4Sw&t=8304s wrecked her truck]] in a way that left it "faceplanted" on the asphalt, leaving her so stunned that she could only watch the camera slowly rotate around the result for six minutes while [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven "Ode to Joy"]] played in the background. Cue ''Evangelion'' references in the chat and Fauna laughing so hard that she declared an end to the gaming portion of the stream.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdZC5LJswFE This]] ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' video ends with two minutes of silent black, after which the viewer "earns" the "[[CallBack Last two minutes of my life back]]" achievement.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': Parodied in the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE203Independent independent]]", where Strong Sad proudly (or at least as proud sounding as he can get) says his film school minor was "Holding on wide shots for too long". And then there's a good 5-second break until the scene cuts.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Uru}}: Path of the Shell'', three puzzles are solved by ''waiting at one point for several minutes''. The reason for this is those puzzles were designed for the MMORPG which was dropped for [[ExecutiveMeddling various reasons]]. Cyan [[TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised finished off the ages they'd been working on and packaged them as]] ''Path of the Shell'', but their substitute for puzzles that needed multiple people was to put in ridiculous 15-minute pauses. When the online version was revived (briefly) we got to see how the puzzles were originally intended.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', the entire scene where Bob is blow-drying the books and invents the lie to Helen about going to a company conference consists of a single shot which does nothing but very slowly zoom in on Bob.

* Norwegian potato chip company Totenflak's "[[https://youtu.be/CoMZ8BOSgos Laga med tålmodighet]]" features a six-minute shot of a chip slowly being cooked and then put into the bag. Yes, they once showed the whole thing on TV.

* ''[[https://youtu.be/vWo58G1gwdw Night Of Horror]]'' features a just over three-minute long scene filmed out of the various windows of a camper as it travels down a highway through Maryland and Virginia. The scenery is not that interesting. There is no dialogue, only the same three minor chords played over and over and over again. After that, a character reads "Bridal Ballad" by Edgar Allan Poe for almost two and a half minutes. The recap site Website/TheAgonyBooth considers these to be [[https://web.archive.org/web/20090418031943/http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Night_of_Horror_1981.aspx the six worst minutes of film ever recapped]].

* Music/LouReed's album ''Music/MetalMachineMusic''. 64 minutes of [[HarshNoise feedback]]. Released on vinyl with a locked groove at the end of side four, and [[http://www.loureed.com/metalmachinemusic/ now available the same way on vinyl, DVD, and Blu-ray]].

* Music/MassiveAttack's ''100th Window'' ends with the hidden track "LP4," an 11-minute instrumental consisting of a repeated ten-second cycle of synths. [[https://youtu.be/Ci9VcioD67Q Here's a slightly shortened version]].
* Electronic music duo Music/{{Autechre}} released a download-only track called ''Perlence Subrange 6-36'' which runs for 58 minutes and 35 seconds. It repeats a 4-second sequence alternating between three different samples, with a few changes in the sequence over the course of the song, and a faint background of dark ambiance which shifts and changes very gradually throughout. You can listen to it [[http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=9232 here]].

* Music/TheReplacements' video for "[[https://youtu.be/fl9KQ1Mub6Q Bastards of Young]]" is a shot of a stereo system in somebody's lounge room, with the song playing (at the wrong speed) on the turn table. The camera stays on it as people go in and out of the room. At the end of the song, the speaker is kicked over.
** The Replacements [[WriterRevolt hated making music videos]] and as a result, a lot of their videos are like this. The video for "[[https://youtu.be/aUmwzgFXfug Left of the Dial]]" is pretty much identical to the video for "Bastards of Young", expect for a handful of differences that make it apparent it isn't the same footage (chief among them is that the speaker lives). The video for "[[https://youtu.be/y5e6A_EozH0 Hold My Life]]" is ''also'' identical to the other two but in full color.
* Music/ThePixies' video for "[[https://youtu.be/PHhox4_SeHQ Velouria]]" is a single shot of the band running a short distance across a rock quarry in slow motion for about four minutes. A fan video once sped up the footage to their best guess at the original speed, setting it to a severely edited 30 second version of the song. Reportedly this is because the band really wanted to perform on ''Series/TopOfThePops'' while the song was in the UK Top 40, but the show required all acts performing on the show to have a music video for their current single, so they threw something together at the last minute. It was all in vain because the band never did get to play on ''Top of the Pops''.

* Nitzer Ebb subverts this trope with the video for [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10rv7_nitzer-ebb-control-i-m-here_music "Control I'm Here"]]. The camera stays in the same place for the entire video, but different scenes (filmed using the very same camera angle) are visually spliced in.

* "Here It Goes Again" is one long take of Music/OKGo on [[https://youtu.be/dTAAsCNK7RA treadmills]].

* Anything directed and/or written by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wilson_%28director%29 Robert Wilson]]

* The original ending of The [[https://youtu.be/IUSnoXaCMZI "Some Sucky Action Movie]]". It consisted of 2 minutes straight of Dr.T messing around with the camera and showing the dead bodies, the dragon trying to leave but being told not to go, and him being a wacko.
* [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaltl7_the-most-lame-you-will-ever-see-in_creation Attack of the Alium Monstars from Outside Space]], due to the video being all one person operating the camera.

* ''Website/ClickHole'' engages in this from time to time. For instance, the [[OverlyLongRunningGag three hour long]] [[http://www.clickhole.com/article/stick-butter-left-out-room-temperature-you-wont-be-368 This Stick Of Butter Is Left Out At Room Temperature; You Won’t Believe What Happens Next]].

* The last [[AnachronicOrder chronological]] episode of ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' features a scene of Nagato reading for several minutes, her page turning the only movement. This episode is later [[ShoutOut referenced]] by ''Manga/LuckyStar'', with Konata getting on her computer after the episode airs and commenting that the {{flame war}}s are already starting. It runs for a total of 3 minutes 17 seconds and is broken up about two thirds through by a (similar but shorter) six-second scene with Kyon sitting on a train. The only 'action' in the scene is that a drama club practicing voice exercises in another room can be overheard.

* At the end of episode 15 of ''LightNovel/ReZero'', [[spoiler:Subaru is decapitated]]. The credits then roll over a 90-second static shot of [[spoiler:Subaru's headless body kneeling in the snow]]. The effect is mitigated not just by the credits, but by the snowfall which gradually gets heavier and eventually whites out the screen.

* In the finale of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' the camera does a looooooooong pan up through the sky and up into space, lasting for several minutes.
* Two notable examples in [[Anime/DotHackSign .hack//SIGN]], one with BT and Bear sitting together on a grassy field, the camera looks as though it's pushing in on a still frame, another where the group is talking in the forest and the camera does a rack focus to show dew drops fall off the leaves then focuses again.

* In ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'', There is a very long scene of Shiki (with one arm) eating ice cream that takes about a minute and a half. It's intended to be symbolic and a Pet the Dog scene about Shiki and Mikiya's relationship.

** The elevator ride with Rei and Asuka. The Director's Cut version at least mixes it a little bit up. That is to say, Asuka moves briefly and only once. What makes the scene especially unsettling is that Rei ''[[UncannyValley never blinks.]]'' The same shot is re-used in ''[[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Evangelion: 2.0,]]'' but for a much shorter amount of time (making its inclusion a bit of a joke for fans).

* There's an entire genre of [=YouTube=] videos, usually referred to as "video game ambience", that just leave the camera running at a location in a video game, often for hours on end. These videos are mainly meant to be put on in the background while the viewer goes about other tasks or even goes to sleep.

* The music video to Death Valley Girls' "Disaster (Is What We're After)" consists of Music/IggyPop eating a hamburger for 4 minutes - this is an homage to the film ''66 Scenes of America'', which has a similar scene with Andy Warhol (but unlike the music video, the original film used no background music),

** The highway scene in ''Film/{{Solaris|1972}}''.
** Almost the entirety of his film ''Film/{{Stalker}}'', a movie best described as "the hybrid offspring of a Creator/KnutHamsun novel and a Creator/SamuelBeckett play, as directed by Creator/StanleyKubrick". Indeed, all of Creator/AndreiTarkovsky's work could probably fit. When Goskino (The State Committee for Cinematography of the Soviet Union) complained that ''Stalker'' should be faster and more dynamic, Tarkovsky responded [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)#Critical_response "The film needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts."]]

--> '''Joel:''' ''DO SOMETHING!!'' God!

** ''Film/TheIndestructibleMan'' has a long segment of a stripper and a detective talking. It lasts for so long that Tom tries to go to sleep (Joel wakes him), Crow tries to walk out (Joel stops him) and Joel has a few outbursts about how long it's been going on (Tom soothes him).
** ''Film/DangerDeathRay'' has a couple of scenes in the beginning. First in when a bunch of scientists are entering a secret base. After they are cleared through the checkpoint, the film spends over ten seconds just looking at the feed of a security camera with ''nothing of interest happening at all''. Finally, Crow just cries out ''Okay?!''. Later, the camera tracks all the members of the conference just walking through a hallway and taking an elevator downstairs.
-->'''Mike:''' They really have captured the grandeur of white guys walking in herds.

* PlayedForLaughs in the ''Series/{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E5NoPlaceLikeHome No Place Like Home.]]" Buffy sees Giles dressed as a wizard and the two stare at each other for about half a minute, with Buffy admirably being able to keep from laughing, until Giles realizes how silly he looks and reluctantly removes the costume.

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* ''WebAnimation/{{Incendiary}}'''s "[[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac Edith]]: Eyes of the Parish" lasts eight minutes, about five of them being shots of [[TheStoic Edith]] looking over the Womb on top of the Cathedral, with a few scenes in between. A version of the video would be uploaded in which these scenes were sped past, [[HandWave Hand Waved]] as an "[[FastForwardGag I'm Excited!]]" pill.

* ''[[https://youtu.be/vWo58G1gwdw Night Of Horror]]'' features a just over three-minute long scene filmed out of the various windows of a camper as it travels down a highway through Maryland and Virginia. The scenery is not that interesting. There is no dialogue, only the same three minor chords played over and over and over again. After that, a character reads "Bridal Ballad" by Edgar Allan Poe for almost two and a half minutes. The recap site Website/TheAgonyBooth considers these to be [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Night_of_Horror_1981.aspx the six worst minutes of film ever recapped]].

* [[http://ah.roosterteeth.com/archive/episode.php?id=297 This]] ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' video ends with two minutes of silent black, after which the viewer "earns" the "[[CallBack Last two minutes of my life back]]" achievement.

* The original ending of The [[https://youtu.be/IUSnoXaCMZI "Some Sucky Action Movie]]". It consisted of 2 minutes straight of Dr.T messing around with the camera (this may have been his first time doing that sadly) and showing the dead bodies, the dragon trying to leave but being told not to go, and him being a wacko. I cut the whole ending off for the better and I lost the original file, not that I'd upload it if I could. It still ended up succeeding in a SoBadItsGood way.

** The highway scene in ''Film/{{Solaris|1972}}''. Supposedly this was done intentionally so that people expecting an exciting, action-filled movie could get the hint and leave the theater.
** Almost the entirety of his film ''Film/{{Stalker}}'', a movie best described as "the hybrid offspring of a Creator/KnutHamsun novel and a Creator/SamuelBeckett play, as directed by Creator/StanleyKubrick". Indeed, all of Creator/AndreiTarkovsky's work could probably fit.

* [[http://ah.roosterteeth.com/archive/episode.php?id=297 This]] ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' video ends with two minutes of silent black, after which the viewer "earns" the "[[CallBack Last two minutes of my life back]]" achievement.

* Music/IronButterfly's ''In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'', which goes on for 17 minutes, only about 5 is actually the song. The massive middle section sounds pretty much like random instrumentals. A common theory about the song is that the band members were all stoned when they recorded it and didn't know when to stop playing.

* ''LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemon'' has this by necessity due to the setup: the stream consists of a Pokemon game with the inputs entered by people watching the stream, meaning that any kind of editing is impossible. Naturally, because of the HiveMind of watchers, this regularly results in incidents like the player character wandering around in front of a building for an hour trying to reach the door, or spending even ''longer'' attempting to walk past a ledge without falling off. Most infamously, during the Team Rocket HQ portion of the original stream, it took over two days for the PC to get through the maze. Needless to say, no one is ever going to watch the whole stream from start to finish (it totals about 16 continuous days of footage).

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