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3	The key to this MusicVideo concept is camera movement: the camera continuously tracks to one side, generally with no {{Jump Cut}}s, creating the impression that the scenes are on... um, a conveyor belt. The scenes themselves are often "slice of life" type settings or mockeries thereof, usually in a dollhouse-like set with literally NoFourthWall.
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5	Obviously, some film splicing is needed to create the illusion of nonstop camera movement. SubTrope of TrackingShot (a long camera shot) and {{Truck}} (horizontally moving the camera without rotating it). SisterTrope of SeamlessScenery (a scene shifts between two locations via the movement of characters/objects).
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7	Not to be confused with the Treadmill Video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAAsCNK7RA "Here It Goes Again"]] by Music/OKGo.
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9	!!Examples:
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12	* Music/GregoryAbbott: The music video of "Shake You Down" is a collection of sliding shots of (mostly black) people engaging in various activities (such as dancing or waking up) or merely staring at the camera. They are interspersed of similar shots of Abbott singing.
13	* Music/SabrinaCarpenter: The music video of "Thumbs" is a continuous shot that follows Sabrina and the passengers of a subterranean train. When Sabrina is off-screen, the camera focuses on the passengers as they sync-lip one of the song's stanzas. When it stops, the camera goes out of the door, pans to the people there, and then gets back.
14	* Music/CrowdedHouse: In "Don't Dream It's Over", as the song picks up, the vocalist is shown through sliding shots of him in different rooms. There's a filming camera roll at some point, {{lampshad\|edTrope}}ing it. It's a {{downplayed}} example because, mixed with the trucking shots, there are regular shots.
15	* Music/MileyCyrus: From her Disney era, "Start All Over" is a [[TheOner Oner]] of Miley dreaming about vibing with everyone in her neighborhood. The camera goes back from her to her backing dancers having fun. There are some orbital shots and {{tilt}}s mixed in too.
16	* Music/DAY6: "Breaking Down" features several overlaid and vertically tessellating, glitched-out shots of the band performing.
17	* Music/{{Devo}}: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp2tQ75pTD0 "What We Do"]], the camera quickly pans to different scenes that are all apparently taking place in one circular room. It's shot with a camera rig that actually does have the ability to rotate 360 degrees. They've also made an [[http://mashable.com/2011/04/19/devo-what-we-do/ "interactive" version]] where you control the camera by clicking your mouse.
18	* Music/{{Everclear}}: In "Everything to Everyone", instead of {{pan}}ning, the camera just rotates, with cuts every cycle so the group of people changes.
19	* Music/{{Feist}}: "My Moon My Man" is a literal example of this, being set in an airport at night (Pearson Airport, in Toronto). The vocalist is shot walking, standing (while people pass by her), dancing, and moon-walking on a conveyor belt as she sings. When she runs out of conveyor belt, she changes directions but the camera never leaves her.
20	* Music/FleetwoodMac: In "Big Love", instead of tracking sideways, the camera trundles steadily backward through several spliced scenes.
21	* Music/JohnFogerty: The video of "The Old Man Down The Road" starts with Fogerty uncovering a small amplifier in the middle of nowhere. The camera slowly follows the very long amplifier cord outdoors past several rural slice-of-life scenes. At the very end, the cord leads to... a guitar John Fogerty is playing.
22	* Music/TheFrontBottoms: The video for "West Virginia" shows a house party shot with a FishEyeLens that has the camera moving seamlessly from room to room, though the apparent location of things in the house changes with time.
23	* Music/{{Genesis\|Band}}: During performances of "The Carpet Crawlers" in the 2007 Turn It On Again tour, a video of pictures and film footage from throughout their career as a band scrolls behind them. Can be seen in the concert DVD, ''When In Rome''.
24	* Music/TheGrapesOfWrath: In "All the Things I Wasn't", the camera glides through different rooms, each containing a member of the band playing their instrument. PlayedWith, as there's some rotating and lingering involved.
25	* Music/{{Halcali}}: "Tandem" uses the conveyor belt to allow for multiple exposures so that the band members can be in several places at once.
26	* Music/HoneymoonSuite: In "Feel It Again", there are several scenes in which objects appear as if on a conveyor belt. First, dining room props (table, chair, window, etc.) and a girl prop glide directly where the singer is seated. Then, the singer and a dog are seen running without actually advancing while urban props slide in the background.
27	* Music/{{INXS}}: The MV of "Need You Tonight" opens with a collage of sorts of the band members (or their body parts) playing their instruments or posing. The collage slides through the screen without the camera moving, so to speak.
28	* Music/{{Jamiroquai}}: In "Virtual Insanity", it's not a conveyor belt per se but everything in the room is constantly moving, such as the furniture or the singer.
29	%%* Music/EltonJohn:
30	%%** "I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That".
31	%%** "I'm Still Standing", which was used as a backdrop film during his Red Piano shows in Las Vegas.
32	* Music/JourneyBand: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatorN4P9aA Separate Ways]]" has a sequence where the camera pans down the line of band members, who each get right up on the camera in turn to shred away.
33	%%* German band Music/{{Juli}}'s "Zerrissen" video.
34	%%* Music/AndrewKepple: His Flash video for the Lemon Demon song "When Robots Attack" is set up as an animatronic darkride about a RobotWar. At the end, the ride turns out to be [[spoiler:commemorating the victory of the robots over the human race in said war]].
35	%%* Music/LittleCreatures: "And She Was".
36	%%* Music/MissingPersons: "I Can't Think About Dancing"
37	%%* Music/{{Moist}}: "Resurrection".
38	* Music/TheNewPornographers: "Letter From An Occupant" is a stylistic remake of Music/FleetwoodMac's "Big Love", though not nearly as creepy.
39	%%* Music/{{OKGo}}:
40	%%** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w second video]] for "This Too Shall Pass" combines this trope with TheOner and RubeGoldbergDevice.
41	%%** In a way, the music video of "Music/HereItGoesAgain" could be considered one, even if it's not one in the traditional sense.
42	%%* Music/OzzyOsbourne: "Mama I'm Coming Home".
43	* Music/RoyalBlood: "I Only Lie When I Love You" features an interesting variation, where the scenes loop in a non-linear fashion while still maintaining a continuous movement.
44	%%* Music/{{Scarface}}, "My Block"
45	* Music/{{Sia}}: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLPPlRDOZx0 "You've Changed"]], PlayedWith the children who rotate on platforms at the beginning of the video. Then, in an absolutely literal sense, phrases and words on signs glide through a moving belt below Sia.
46	* Music/TheSmashingPumpkins: In "Ava Adore", aside from the fact that one of the rooms is {{pixellat\|ion}}ed out, exactly halfway through the video the camera -- following the band -- pulls a 180 to reveal the track that the camera has been, and will be, following; the camera at this point was conveniently tucked into the U-turn on the track.[[note]]For what it's worth, the room in question is very much un-pixellated in versions of the video found on Platform/YouTube, revealing an orgy taking place in the background. (Hence the reason MTV pixellated it, most likely...)[[/note]]
47	* Music/SpiceGirls: They took it to the next step with "Wannabe"; the camera actually followed the girls around in three-dimensional space while creating the illusion of [[TheOner one long, continuous shot]].
48	* Music/{{Sugababes}}: The "Overload" MV starts with the camera trucking on two of the singers seated on the floor back to back. It looks as if it's them moving rather than the camera. The third girl's face appears just as the belt motion is ending.
49	* Music/TalkingHeads: "And She Was" is [[AnimatedMusicVideo animated]] to simulate this effect, to convey the idea that "the world was moving" and that "she was right there with it".
50	* {{Music/TISM}}: "Thunderbirds are Coming Out" features a long line of Australian bands playing the titular song, with TISM themselves showing up at the end [[spoiler:when the song is over]]. The camera trucks alongside them.
51	* Music/VanHalen: In "Feels So Good", [[ChromaKey green-screened]] repeating images of the individual band members are tracked sideways across the screen.
52	%%* Music/TheWho: For their 50th Anniversary tour, one is playing on the screens behind them during "You Better You Bet".
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54	[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
55	* ''Series/ADifferentWorld'': In the second TitleSequence, the camera trucks right, showing the main characters reading non-descript blue books. As the motion continues, we slide to other rooms, in which various secondary characters get brief {{Establishing Character Moment}}s such as girls prettying themselves up, a marching band annoying the hell of an overworked woman, a LoveInterests flirting, a team playing basketball, people dancing, a girl chatting in the phone, military personnel saluting, and graduates celebrating.
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57	[[AC:Web Original]]
58	* WebVideo/{{Hadriex}}: His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARPmOwpyzLQ Top 10 online comics]] starts and ends with select screenshots of what he regards are the best 10 webcomics of the time sliding in quick succession through the screen. It's set to ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' music.

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