You've seen the technique again and again in movies and
TV — a body-mounted camera is locked onto an actor as their surroundings blur and shift around them, creating a disorienting vertigo effect.
In the first episode of our new series Free Film School, we break down the Snorricam effect, a dizzying camera technique formally invented in the early 90s, popularized by Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream and seen in everything from Talladega Nights to Slumdog Millionaire. But the history of the shot dates back much further to a 1930s German film, a John Frankenheimer cult classic, and a Scorsese favorite.
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