Monday, 31 August 2015

No need to look closer

Grandma's Reading Glass (1900)

Directed by George Albert Smith (although there are some theories on other attributions) this is a short, silent film. A young boy uses his grandma's magnifying glass to look at various things.

There is not much of a plot to this short film, it is essentially just over a minute of a boy using the magnifying glass on a random selection of things. Historically this film may be important for being the first use of cutting to close-up point of view shots but that is really all it is. This is little more than an early film making experiment in technique.


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