Irmin Roberts

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Irmin Roberts (born June 30, 1904 in California , † October 26, 1978 in Riverside , California) was an American cameraman .

At the Academy Awards in 1939 , the effects team received the film Pirates in Alaska , produced by Paramount in 1938 and directed by Henry Hathaway , to which Irmin Roberts also included Jan Domela , Farciot Edouart , Loyal Griggs , Devereaux Jennings , Gordon Jennings , Louis Mesenkop and Harry D. Mills , Walter Oberst , Loren L. Ryder, and Art Smith , an honorary Oscar for excellence in creating special sound and film effects.

Irmin Roberts is considered to be the inventor of the dolly zoom , also known as the vertigo effect. The effect was first used in 1945 in Alfred Hitchcock's I fight for you . The best known, however, is the application in Hitchcock's thriller Vertigo - From the Realm of the Dead (1958), for whose filming Roberts had been hired as a cameraman (picture director) of the Second Unit .

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SURNAME Roberts, Irmin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH California , USA
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1978
Place of death Riverside , California, USA