4 reviews
Very well done for its time
- Horst_In_Translation
- Oct 27, 2015
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Peep Show
A hotel worker looks through keyholes in his workplace and sees several startling sights.
This is an early example of matte work, in which the shape of the image on on the screen is changed, not through set decoration, but by changing the outlines of the image. In this case, appropriately enough, the image is defined as a circle with the lower half of a triangle beneath.
Mattes are still used occasionally, as when some one looks through binoculars and the field of vision is restricted to two co-joined circles.
This was a popular and saucy subject for peep-shows and was remade a couple of times. Ferdinand Zecca made a more elaborate version of it in 1901, with almost no change save a more elaborate ending.
This is an early example of matte work, in which the shape of the image on on the screen is changed, not through set decoration, but by changing the outlines of the image. In this case, appropriately enough, the image is defined as a circle with the lower half of a triangle beneath.
Mattes are still used occasionally, as when some one looks through binoculars and the field of vision is restricted to two co-joined circles.
This was a popular and saucy subject for peep-shows and was remade a couple of times. Ferdinand Zecca made a more elaborate version of it in 1901, with almost no change save a more elaborate ending.
Peeping Tom review
Decent early short comedy that combines 'what the butler saw' comedy with a comment on the illusion of female beauty.
- JoeytheBrit
- Apr 21, 2020
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The Peeping Tom
Peeping Tom (1897)
This here is a pretty simple film as we start off seeing a man sweeping in a hallway before he then starts to peep into the keyholes. Inside the keyholes we get to see what the people are doing. If you're a fan of these older films then you know that as the decade wore on we got more and more scripted ideas. This thing here was obviously scripted and on that level alone it is somewhat interesting even if nothing we see in the keyhole is all that special. I guess you could say this was an early erotic picture as the first keyhole appears to have been meant to excite men but what follows isn't all that special.
This here is a pretty simple film as we start off seeing a man sweeping in a hallway before he then starts to peep into the keyholes. Inside the keyholes we get to see what the people are doing. If you're a fan of these older films then you know that as the decade wore on we got more and more scripted ideas. This thing here was obviously scripted and on that level alone it is somewhat interesting even if nothing we see in the keyhole is all that special. I guess you could say this was an early erotic picture as the first keyhole appears to have been meant to excite men but what follows isn't all that special.
- Michael_Elliott
- Sep 20, 2018
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