Bocal aux poissons rouges (1897)

Bocal aux poissons rouges (1897)

1897-03-21 France 1 Min. PG-13
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Overview

[…] 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.