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"In one scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 thriller
Vertigo, lead character
John “Scottie” Ferguson (James Stewart) is shown following Madeleine Elster
(Kim Novak) up a bell tower.
Scottie is afraid of heights. So when he briefly stops and glances down, he
experiences a wave of vertigo. The stairwell distorts, seemingly stretching
into the distance below him – a potent reflection of his dizzy and panicked
state.
This scene is the first ever example of the “dolly zoom”, a dynamic visual
technique achieved through camera movement and a zoom lens.
Also known as the “vertigo effect” or the “contra zoom”, it requires
significant skill. The subject must remain the same size within the frame,
while the background distorts by either stretching or compressing."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
