stackyFACTSTo freeze time while the camera circles an actor, filmmakers construct a massive rig holding hundreds of individual photo lenses. By firing them sequentially in a rapid chain, the resulting photos are stitched together to simulate a single camera moving at impossible, reality-bending speeds.
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