following on Andreas's email, I can contribute that in France we call it "trans-travelling" - a "travelling" is the technical term (French-speaking) they use on-set to describe what their English-speaking counterparts call "tracking shots" - a travelling typically refers to a tracking shot on a moving vehicle (dolly...)
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From: Andreas Treske <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Vertigo camera effect
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
On Jun 29, 2009, at 9:11 PM, Henry M. Taylor wrote:
> 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.
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> Thanks for all comments and suggestions.
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