I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M Date: 02-Jun-1992 11:56am DST From: Corinne H. Smith CHSMITH Dept: Audio Visual Services Tel No: (814) 863-3104 TO: VMSMail User _IN%"SCREEN-L ( _IN%"[log in to unmask]" ) Subject: RE: Zoom lens According to _Guinness Film Facts & Feats_ by Patrick Robertson (1985), "The first zoom lens was used by camerman Victor Milner on Rouben Mamoulian's _Love Me Tonight_. There are two zoom shots in the 'Paris waking' sequence and one in the hunting sequence. It was many years before zoom lenses became generally available and sometimes considerable ingenuity was exercised to obtain the same effect. Jacques Sigurd wanted the last shot of _Une si jolie petite plage_ to be of the hero and heroine on the beach with the camera tracking away from them until they were merely specks in the distance. He was unable to hire a helicopter and a trolley would have left tracks in the sand. His eventual solution was to have the camera moving forwards, the two performers walking backwards, and the film upside down in the camera." Corinne Penn State Audio-Visual Services chsmith@psuces