In this scene, which I've described previously where they walk through the forest, and we're on a 400mm lens, panning with them as they walk in a semicircle... the reason why they walk... why we designed it that way was that we could maintain a close shot without tracking. It looks as if you're tracking because they're so close together and they're so far away on the long lens, and by walking in a semicircle their configuration... their relationship to each other remains the same. Alan Bates is on the right looking ahead and Jennie Linden is slightly in front of him looking back, and that relationship is main... retained throughout the length of the shot, and with... with the addition of the Brute just above the lens, it gave that little bit of light in the eyes. But you can very often do that with a long focus lens, it... it can look like a tracking shot. And the other thing, which I didn't make clear was the zoom lens – the Angenieux zoom lens. The... it had an eyepiece, not a finder, on the side. It had an eyepiece coming out of the lens with... with a prism at the end of the eyepiece, which reflected the image through the lens and this was the first time that you could use the zoom lens on a camera that wasn't a mirrored shutter. And we used it to great extent, too much at times, because there are shots where we kind of zoom in and out, where today you wouldn't... wouldn’t do that. But... equipment goes in phases. There have been... and a lot of this comes from commercials. I found that... that on commercials we were very often using equipment extensively before it was used in films. Like zoom lenses were very popular in commercials for a time and then fog filters were popular for a time, and then fog and mist on the set was popular, and it... it was usually a little while after that that it became accepted in... in cinema. So the commercials were a testing ground for a lot of things.
