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How do you do this eye shot?

It's the eye shot from Metropolis, at 2:35 into the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0D4fHieW8o

I don't want to shoot eyes but different objects and still use the same effect where you see them all. I thought about shooting all the objects so that they will all appear in different parts of the screen, when I fad them all together, and then adding a vignette over the parts of the shots you don't want to be seen, during the fade. Is there a better way to do it though?
 
Back then, it was done with multiple exposures, and probably some matte to prevent exposure of certain areas before desired.

Now, this would be pretty simple to do with after effects and some feathered masks
 
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