accurately capture the terror felt by “Scottie” Ferguson in 1958′s Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock pioneered a unique camera technique that still bears his name — the Hitchcock Zoom. Here’s how it works.
A lot happens in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, all of it dutifully overseen by a wheelchair-bound photographer from a single spot. But to take in absolutely everything that Jimmy Stewart’s character does in the course of the film, you need to see this time-lapse, which stitches together an entire panorama from that single vantage point.
