Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:11:33 +0200
From: "Henry M. Taylor" <[log in to unmask]" ymailto="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Vertigo camera effect

Is there a technical term for the visual effect achieved in
Hitchcock's Vertigo where the camera simultaneously tracks forward and
zooms back (or the reverse)? It has in the meantime become very common
in films. I would also be intrigued to know whether Hitch and his DP
Robert Burks were indeed the first to use this feature.

Thanks for all comments and suggestions.

Henry

David Sterritt The Films of Alfred Hitchcock Cambridge Film Classics gives a nice technical explanation of the shot (p.82) and its implications - he notes it as track-out and zoom-in.