I've seen two or three short films of anglers at play from this period, and this one shot by Frederick Armitage has something in it that the others haven't: a second person.
Otherwise, it's much the same, with the angler casting and reeling in a fish, which causes me to wonder why Armitage decided to place another human on the screen. At first I thought this was going to be a comedy short in which the observer plays a trick on the fisher, perhaps stealing his catch. That doesn't happen. Instead, he enters the screen, and watches the action. This changes the composition and forces the viewer tosplit his attention. Surely this is not a good thing.
I'm going to conclude that the presence of a viewer changes the film ina sort of Planckian manner, and call it an experiment gone wrong.
Otherwise, it's much the same, with the angler casting and reeling in a fish, which causes me to wonder why Armitage decided to place another human on the screen. At first I thought this was going to be a comedy short in which the observer plays a trick on the fisher, perhaps stealing his catch. That doesn't happen. Instead, he enters the screen, and watches the action. This changes the composition and forces the viewer tosplit his attention. Surely this is not a good thing.
I'm going to conclude that the presence of a viewer changes the film ina sort of Planckian manner, and call it an experiment gone wrong.
