The zoom lens is older than you may think. It’s used in one scene of the documentary feature The Silent Enemy (1930), filmed in 1928-1929, to follow a person climbing up the side of a mountain. Another zoom was used in an overhead shot during a musical number in The Hollywood Revue of 1929. And yes, it’s a zoom shot, not a crane. Both pictures are available on home video.
Director Rouben Mamoulian used several zoom shots in the musical Love Me Tonight (1932).
<-----------Laughing in delight. Ah, this is much MUCH more fun than derringers at dawn.
I hope you’re enjoying it as much as I am. Perhaps I should have said, " Zoom lenses were not used on quiet interior love scenes over dolly shots due to the difficulties of blimping said lenses properly to preserve the relative quiet of the shot ".
You feel a little dizzy and begin to hear theremin music. Slack-jawed, you look at the cocktail glass in your hand – empty now except for the ice. You look up at her with a question in your eyes that you will never speak. Fade to black.
…rooms seldom if ever have ceilings.
…the average nightclub has more floor space than an aircraft carrier and a dance floor that’s as polished as a mirror.
…important news always arrives via telegram.
…alcoholism is always funny and loveable.
…people only drive more than 40 mph in chase scenes.
For the last scene you will stretched lengthwize.
If you are a guy, another guy calls you “Mac”, even if that isn’t your name.
Actually, that sounds kinda cool. Except for the cigarettes.