Often wondered about styrofoam (which I hate but often resort to when on business travel, for takeout). Does it have better or worse properties than the plastic mentioned here?

I've noticed most places on the west coast have completely eliminated Styrofoam for a biodegradeable alternative

Styrofoam is plastic. Dow Chemical got a fancy trademark but microwaving it is just as awful. It's extruded polystyrene foam, I would avoid eating food out of it (even if it's not microwaved).

its a plastic. its just mixed with air -- foam -- to give it a better structure.

take a lighter to some, at a distance mind you, go slow, and it'll melt down into a plastic-y resin. used to do that all the time to make terrain for tabletop gaming.

The first part that shocked me was when they went over the metal thing around 0:51, and then again when they went into the building. The effect they produced here without any CGI or drones is pretty amazing in my opinion.

It felt like my soul was leaving my body at the end! Maybe it’s just because I don’t handle heights that well though

Yeah, I know what you mean -- I guess its for film geeks.

It's 1964. No CGI. No drones. No lightweight cameras.

And yet, today, such a shot is still as impossible and very rarely done.

Why is it so impossible? I get that cinema cameras are a bit heavier to handle, but the trickiest part seem to be the hand-offs between walking backwards, pulling the camera up and receiving the camera on the upper floor.

It's a complex shot and there isn't really that big of pay off beyond having done the shot, but it's by no means "impossible", or am I missing something here?

> Why is it so impossible

Because it requires imagination. And then careful planning. And then execution.

In the shot, there is a crowd in the streets, there are people on balconies and in the rooms acting in concert with the camera etc.

These days this is offloaded to overworked underpaid CGI artists at a second production unit.

And the coordination with the huge crowd.

Movie was filmed on lightweight handheld camera.

You surely don't have to be a film buff to appreciate the skill and artistry that went into that shot. I'm not at all a film buff but to me it is a work of art on par with other works of art regardless of medium.

I regularly go on 10+ mile hikes with my girlfriend and we’ve noticed this happens after 2-3 hrs of straight, continuous hiking. When you all the sudden stop, it looks like the surrounding environment is coming at you. Super weird, same concept.

Less impressively, the same effect can be observed after playing Guitar Hero for a while.