Shot Variation

Shot variation is a when a stream of film or images remains uninterrupted by out of camera editing, the shot can be static or  in motion but it is continuous.  This was a lot more common in earlier films and used by the older generation of directors due to the lack of cameras and technology and how heavy and big cameras were making it harder to follow the action and cut.

For example

In this clip, up until the last minute of the film there is literally about seven cuts in nine minutes of film, in modern day film we see seven cuts in around twenty seconds of film.