[…] 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.
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France 21 March 1897
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30 June 1897
In front of a flour mill, two men fight. One is the miller, and he's swinging a bag of flour in the scuffle.
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30 November 1897
Man paints 'This house to let' and then the film is reversed.
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01 January 1897
A view taken from Brighton beach on the Channel coast of the transit of Magnus Volk’s amazing seagoing electric railway, long celebrated as one of the world’s more bizarre railway experiments.
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A robber forces a luckless stroller in the park to remove his hat, coat, waistcoat and trousers.
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Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets.
20 October 1897
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