Post by Capo on Jan 27, 2007 1:42:24 GMT
The Miller and the Sweep
G. A. Smith 1898 UK
Two men throw flour at one another in front of a windmill.
This is brilliant stuff: funny in the chaotic sense, witty in the visual sense, and makes use of action beyond and outside of the frame we see. As the two men throw flour, for instance, it's pretty silly stuff, but made even more absurd by the circular, stubborn movement of the windmill behind them. When one chases the other off and out of frame, the camera stays there, watching the windmill (acknowledgment of temporal implicities of Cinema) and then a long line of country folk run across frame after the two men (acknowledgment of spatial implicities of Cinema).
G. A. Smith 1898 UK
Two men throw flour at one another in front of a windmill.
This is brilliant stuff: funny in the chaotic sense, witty in the visual sense, and makes use of action beyond and outside of the frame we see. As the two men throw flour, for instance, it's pretty silly stuff, but made even more absurd by the circular, stubborn movement of the windmill behind them. When one chases the other off and out of frame, the camera stays there, watching the windmill (acknowledgment of temporal implicities of Cinema) and then a long line of country folk run across frame after the two men (acknowledgment of spatial implicities of Cinema).