 In the early stages of developing what was to become the famous  Bullet Time sequence, visual effects supervisor  John Gaeta (I) (qv) and director of photography  Bill Pope (I) (qv) constructed many gimbals and dollies in the  hope of creating the effect the old fashioned way. The original  dolly they created for the camera would be lead around the action at  a tremendous speed, but after many failed tests and broken dollies,  they opted for computer graphics, which meant writing an entirely  new program for the effect. However, the Bullet Time sequence does  still use one very old fashioned technique: still photography.