Aquarium
About Aquarium
Fish of different kinds and frogs move in a small aquarium. A Maguire and Baucus description also lists eels and turtles, and says the view is thrown highly magnified.
Cast & crew
More about Aquarium
Lumière catalogue number 3. Louis Lumière claimed the view in the list he gave Georges Sadoul. The catalogue dates it before a Lyon screening on March 22, 1896, where it was billed as L'Aquarium. The length is 17 meters.
Background
One of the 1896 Lumière views, programmed in Lyon on March 22 and then sent out with the catalogue.
Making
A tank of animals, shot so the Cinématographe could enlarge them on the screen.
Look
The camera is set on the glass tank so the animals fill the frame.
Preservation
The Lumière catalogue records a negative, a countertype, and a print.
Notes
- Some American bills called the same subject The Royal Aquarium, Brighton, or The Aquarium, Brighton, England.
- It was shown in Philadelphia at the Bijou Theatre on July 27, 1896, and at Keith's Union Square Theatre in New York on October 24, 1896.
- The Lumière catalogue lists a negative, one countertype, and one Lumière print.
Scenes
- Fish and frogs cross in front of the glass.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Aquarium (1896) - Louis Lumière.webm)
