Bocal aux poissons-rouges (1897)

• 57%
• 1897
• Dokumentarfilm

No.18-in-the-Licht katalog really stands out. Most of their films were long shots of people in everyday situationen, usually in a diagonal zusammensetzung. So these poor fish did not have much moving space neither in their housing nor in the framing of the picture. The resulting film is all the more remarkable in its beautiful simplicity and could be regarded as a precursor to the aquarium videos that were quite popular about 100 years later. Aquaria have been around since the Roman Empire, where they kept fish in marble-tanks. From around the 50 year they were able to improve the view of their fish by replacing one marble plate with glass. Fish bowls were developed much later and nowadays are not considered as suitable for most fish.