The story about success and ‘American Dream’ come true. Life of Mr. Albert Mayer Sr., designer of the Panavision Panaflex film cameras, from the concentration camp to ‘Oscars’. The most of Mr. Mayer’s long career he has spent working at the Panavision where he was a leading constructor of the film cameras. For his innovative technical achievements he was awarded with some of the highest awards in the film industry, including four Oscars. He was born and raised in little town in Yugoslavia. Being German after WWII he was, together with other ethnic Germans, held for 3 years in the concentration camp where he escaped almost certain death and started his path to engineering career in the USA.