Shocking!!!!! (for 1900)
This early Smith film is a later experiment of the POV shots and masking that he was experimenting with in his movies. Though made the same year as "Grandma's Reading Glass" this is actually technically better than that film, having an actual story to tell; in the other film, Smith was more just having fun filming POVs without really trying to incorporate any sort of plot. Thus, this can be seen as a more important short in that respect.
A man with a telescope is outside of a shop, looking around at different things with his instrument. He spots a scene happening on the other side of the road and uses his telescope to spy on a man tying a woman's shoe, and glimpses the woman's leg!!!!!!!!!! Whoa, don't look! Woman's showing her leg!!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! is the reaction it probably got at the time, though it seems pretty harmless now. Not especially great but important and still somewhat entertaining today.
A man with a telescope is outside of a shop, looking around at different things with his instrument. He spots a scene happening on the other side of the road and uses his telescope to spy on a man tying a woman's shoe, and glimpses the woman's leg!!!!!!!!!! Whoa, don't look! Woman's showing her leg!!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! is the reaction it probably got at the time, though it seems pretty harmless now. Not especially great but important and still somewhat entertaining today.
- Tornado_Sam
- 3 oct. 2017