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MegaMarioMan
(Ten years in the joint)

When sketches or photographs are shown on TV it's common for the camera to zoom in slowly onto one of the figures in the photograph. As it does so the background moves as though the figure were actually a few inches in front of the background. What's it called, how do they do it and why?