The backs of houses can be seen from the train as it travels through the snowy city of Aix-Les-Bainsm. In this Lumiere actuality.
As always, I caution the reader of my review that in this period, a panorama in the movies referred to any moving shot. The modern sense of a panorama shot would not become possible for another couple of years, when a movie camera was marketed that was small and light enough to be mounted on a tripod that could swivel. For the moment, movie cameras - which often could project movies, as well as shoot them -- were bulky things with specific lenses, leading to fixed shots, unless you put them on a train or a ship.
As always, I caution the reader of my review that in this period, a panorama in the movies referred to any moving shot. The modern sense of a panorama shot would not become possible for another couple of years, when a movie camera was marketed that was small and light enough to be mounted on a tripod that could swivel. For the moment, movie cameras - which often could project movies, as well as shoot them -- were bulky things with specific lenses, leading to fixed shots, unless you put them on a train or a ship.
