Given that the first cine zoom lenses appeared in the early 1930s, and
that it then takes a few years for the technology to be absorbed to
the point where people start to think of novel/unusual/creative things
they can do with it, it's not surprising that there probably isn't
anything much earlier than Vertigo that uses it,
Nicky Hamlyn.
On 29 Jun 2009, at 20:01, Andreas Treske wrote:
> I don't know the English term, in German it was called
> "Fotografische Perspektive". This was the term Johannes Mueller was
> using in his classes at Munich Film Academy. Straight translated it
> would be "photographical perspective". Other films with the same
> effect are "ET", "Poltergeist", "Death of a Saleman" (Schloendorf),
> "Jaws". It seems like Spielberg loves the effect. While searching
> with Mueller examples I somehow did not find anything older than
> Hitchcock's.
>
> Andreas
>
>
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