A Mind-Blowing Impossible Shot from the Movie ‘Contact’

May 28, 2012

Michael Zhang

This has to do with filmmaking rather than photography, but check out this jaw-dropping shot from the 1997 movie Contact. Can you figure out how it was created? Here’s the answer.

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