

[…] 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.
Bocal aux poissons rouges was directed by Louis Lumière.
Bocal aux poissons rouges runs for 1min, and was released in 1897.
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