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

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

1896

Seven More Stations

1948

Nanook of the North

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1922

Bicycle

Bicycle

1965

Speed

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1984

Origins of Life

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2001

One Second in Montreal

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1969

Moonwalk

Moonwalk

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Carmencita

Carmencita

1894

Blacksmithing Scene

Blacksmithing Scene

1893

Roundhay Garden Scene

Roundhay Garden Scene

1888

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge

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1888

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1934

The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

2007

Alaska: Spirit of the Wild

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1998

Amazon

Amazon

1997

Cosmic Voyage

Cosmic Voyage

1996

Mystery of the Nile

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2005

NASCAR: The IMAX Experience

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2004