Bocal aux poissons rouges (1897)

[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of cinema has witnessed a struggle between the objective and subjective camera and the optically distorting lenses like the fisheye lens has been a powerful tool for the subjective camera. Here it is at the start.

Released March 21, 1897 1 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Short

Keywords: tmdb.silent-film, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.year-1895, tmdb.goldfish, tmdb.goldfish-bowl, tmdb.fisheye-lens, imdb.1890s, imdb.19th-century

Production Companies: Lumiere

Country: France
Production Country: France
Languages: No Language