Post by Capo on Jan 28, 2007 14:38:27 GMT
The Kiss in the Tunnel
G. A. Smith 1899 UK
A train moves into a tunnel; whilst in the tunnel, on the train, a man and woman kiss.
The audience sit in the theatres and literally move along the train tracks, a motion given by attaching the camera on the front of the train. Quite literally, a tracking shot. These films are so simple in their experimentation of cinematic language that often a more detailed regurgitation of synopsis offers great opportunity for analysis. But the visual storytelling begs for, or at least is wide-open to, Freudian analysis: a long train penetrates a tunnel, and then a couple make out straight after in an unconnected image.
G. A. Smith 1899 UK
A train moves into a tunnel; whilst in the tunnel, on the train, a man and woman kiss.
The audience sit in the theatres and literally move along the train tracks, a motion given by attaching the camera on the front of the train. Quite literally, a tracking shot. These films are so simple in their experimentation of cinematic language that often a more detailed regurgitation of synopsis offers great opportunity for analysis. But the visual storytelling begs for, or at least is wide-open to, Freudian analysis: a long train penetrates a tunnel, and then a couple make out straight after in an unconnected image.