 The now famous long take that begins at the top of the hotel, then  winds around and down into the swimming pool, originally come out of  the water and continued. The camera was hand held, passed from  crewmember to crewmember, to make its way down the side of the hotel  into the pool. The camera lens had been equipped with a high speed,  spinning glass disk taken from a submarine periscope. The spinning  disk was installed to fling water drops of the lens when the camera  emerged from the swimming pool at the end of the shot. Much to the  disappointment of the camera crew, director  Mikheil Kalatozishvili (qv) cut the end of the take, ending it  underwater.