20 Myths and Truths About Alfred Hitchcock

TRUTH, WITH SHARED CREDIT: Vertigo introduced the famous visual sensation now called the dolly zoom, in which the camera moves while the lens zooms in the opposite direction, making space appear to stretch or collapse. Hitchcock wanted a shot that could express Scottie’s acrophobia visually. Cameraman Irmin Roberts helped execute the effect. The innovation became so associated with the movie that “Vertigo effect” remains shorthand, although later filmmakers turned it into a standard cinematic technique.