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Vertigo
The background slides out from under the subject.
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How this one runs
From text · 5s · 16:9 · KLING 3.0 TURBO
What this effect is
The vertigo shot dollies the camera backwards while zooming the lens in at the same rate: the subject holds its exact size and the background warps away behind it. Hitchcock built the rig in 1958 to show a character’s psychological drop, and it still reads as the ground giving way.
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