As Seen Through a Telescope
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About As Seen Through a Telescope
An elderly man in a silk hat sits on a stool in the street and looks through a telescope. The view cuts to a young woman's ankle. Her husband notices the man watching.
Cast & crew
More about As Seen Through a Telescope
George Albert Smith directed, produced, and photographed the one-minute comedy. It is also called The Professor and His Field Glass. Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline counts three shots.
Themes
Look
Smith cuts from the man at the telescope to a masked close view of the ankle, then back to the street.
Technique
A point-of-view close-up is cut into a three-shot gag.
Notes
- The point-of-view insert is the same kind of device Smith used in Grandma's Reading Glass the same year.
- Brooke wrote that the editing is simple, and that the film places a close-up inside a short story rather than using it only as a trick.
Scenes
- The image changes to the circular view through the telescope, framed on the ankle.
