Watch: Take An 8-Minute Journey With Use Of Dolly Zoom Through Film History

Here’s a bit of movie trivia you might not know. “The Dolly zoom… was invented by cameraman Irmin Roberts to visually convey the feeling of agoraphobia by zooming in with the lens while simultaneously dollying backwards the entire camera... or vice versa.”

So prefaces editor and film enthusiast Vashi Nedomansky in his eight and a half minute long supercut, “Evolution of the Dolly Zoom.” In the video, Nedomansky strings together nearly two-dozen examples of the camera technique from classic films, beginning with its famous debut in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” on which Irmin Roberts worked. You can see how effective the technique was at creating a sense of, well, vertigo, as retired detective John 'Scottie' Ferguson (James Stewart) chases Madeleine (Kim Novak) up a bell tower. He suffers from an acute fear of heights, which inhibits his ability to follow her. Roberts’ technique is absolutely perfect in its attempt to convey how disabling and disorienting Ferguson’s acrophobia...