We’ve all seen this technique before - the main character is walking in place towards the camera, and in the background Neon signs zoom out towards the screen edges.
The character may be in despair, all disheveled as the signs floating by say “Liquor Store”…“All Night Bar”…“Gambling”…etc.
Or they could be having a good time, like in the first Austin Powers movie where all the signs were famous bars.
I can remember an older Frank Sinatra movie where they used this, also a silly 60’s movie with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, (A New Kind of Love, I think), but surely this technique is older than that? Can someone name the first movie to do it?