[…] 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.
Directed by Louis Lumière
goldfish
silent film
goldfish bowl
fisheye lens
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
3.1 / 5
Crew
Louis Lumière
Director
Louis Lumière
Producer
Auguste Lumière
Producer
Popular Reviews
9 reviews
Mykola Wash
2.0★ · 11/22/25
revolutionary camera-work, but purely experimental and we just see what they were trying to do
revolutionary camera-work, but purely experimental and we just see what they were trying to do
Evan
3.4★ · 10/12/18
I mean I get the pioneering but usually these are a little more entertaining than fish just swimming but y’know history.
I mean I get the pioneering but usually these are a little more entertaining than fish just swimming but y’know history.
