Patent ID: 7843497

Claim:
A method for producing a visual special effect incorporating a controllable amount of light tunneling, comprising the steps of: providing an array of cameras deployed along a curvilinear path with each camera focused on a common scene containing a moving object; controlling time sequential actuation of a series of adjacent or proximate cameras along said array of cameras so that each camera begins to capture an image of the scene at a different point in space from each other; controlling a time length of exposure of each adjacent or proximate camera to allow a controlled amount of light tunneling caused by said moving object to accumulate to provide respective light tunnel images; capturing a tunnel of moving light on a pair of cameras of the array of cameras, from the moving object to form a frozen image of the moving object; and displaying a sequence of said respective light tunnel images of the frozen image in a motion picture medium to create the visual special effect from a point of view of moving along said curvilinear path while viewing said common scene, wherein the sequence of said respective light tunnel images is rotated between first and second angles on the motion picture medium to change the view of the frozen image.