The story about the life and achievements of Mr. Albert Mayer, legendary designer of the Panavision Panaflex film cameras. These cameras have been used  by thousands of major motion pictures throughot the world. 

Mr. Albert Mayer lives in Los Angeles, California, USA. The most years of his long career life he has spent working at the Panavision where he was a leading designer of the film cameras. For his innovative work and technical achievements Mayer was awarded with some of the highest awards in film industry, including four Oscars and Emmy. 

Albert Mayer was born and raised in Perlez, little town in Banat, the county of Vojvodina – then Kingdom of Yugoslavia, today Republic of Serbia. As a member of German ethnic corps after WWII, he was, together with other ethnic Germans, deprived of his property and held in the concentration camp Knićanin (Rudolfsgnad). Later, he was deported from Yugoslavia to Schweningen, little town in German Schwarzwald. 

He arrived to Gemany as a  teenager - a refugee who didnʼt speak much German but he successfully completed his education. His sports career helped him gain popularity. There he met the love of his life and married her. 

When Russians started to raise the Berlin Wall, he decided to choose himself the country he will continue his life. He arrived to the USA, without speaking a word of English. In America he starts to learn his third language...