Billy Wilder's wonderful 1960 film "The Apartment" had a problem. it needed to show an enormous room at a NYC insurance company that would be filled with employees at calculators reaching far back into the distance. But the available sound stages were not large enough to do this in reality.
The solution was an ingenious deployment of perspective. The desks, other items, and the actors themselves were physically progressively smaller row by row beyond the rows closest to the camera. Even when you know this, it's virtually impossible to view the scene as in other than a very large room. Perfect.
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