At this point in the history of motion pictures, a panorama meant a camera that moved, any camera that moved, usually by being put on a train or boat or some such and giving the viewers a sight of what they would see in the camera's place: a constantly changing view. By the middle of the next decade, it had assumed its modern meaning of a panorama or "Pan" shot, in which the camera sat in one spot and was turned to give up to a 360 degree field of vision. Later, wide-screen techniques would attempt to replicate the original painterly sense with a wide-angle view -- and incorporate the word in such wide-screen methods as Panavision.
Although to the modern eye there isn't much change from one moment to another as the boat the camera is on moves -- occasionally a stand of palm trees passes by -- the Lumieres' intended audience would look on this as an exotic locale. They could and would do better.
Although to the modern eye there isn't much change from one moment to another as the boat the camera is on moves -- occasionally a stand of palm trees passes by -- the Lumieres' intended audience would look on this as an exotic locale. They could and would do better.
