Bocal aux poissons rouges

[…] 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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Railway Station

Railway Station

1980

One Second in Montreal

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1969

Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic

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2011

Mode Reville

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Lumiere's First Picture Shows

2013

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The Defilee of Army Orchestra, Carriages and Horsemen

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1908

How Animated Cartoons Are Made

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1919

Two Letters for Ana

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Chronos

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1985

The Pictures That Moved: Australian Cinema 1896-1920

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1968

Dolphins

Dolphins

2000

Besuch des Zaren auf der russischen Botschaft

1896

Antarctica: An Adventure of a Different Nature

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1991

Roving Mars

Roving Mars

2006

The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

2007

Coral Reef Adventure

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2003

Deep Sea 3D

Deep Sea 3D

2006

IMAX: Galapagos 3D

IMAX: Galapagos 3D

1999

The Living Sea

The Living Sea

1995