People walk on a moving sidewalk in Paris.
It's a panorama under the original movie definition of the term, a picture taken from a moving object. The term would change to the more modern movie sense, in which the camera moves to give the audience a wider view of the scene. about 1904. Later, this would be shortened into a 'pan shot'.
Like many of James White's movies, it seems more interested in showing people's backs; some are stationary, while others trudge ahead, anxious to get where they are going, oblivious, like the camera, to the views that surround them. The last few seconds of the film, however, turn to face the buildings the camera passes. Perhaps White was coming to an understanding of what people liked to look at.
It's a panorama under the original movie definition of the term, a picture taken from a moving object. The term would change to the more modern movie sense, in which the camera moves to give the audience a wider view of the scene. about 1904. Later, this would be shortened into a 'pan shot'.
Like many of James White's movies, it seems more interested in showing people's backs; some are stationary, while others trudge ahead, anxious to get where they are going, oblivious, like the camera, to the views that surround them. The last few seconds of the film, however, turn to face the buildings the camera passes. Perhaps White was coming to an understanding of what people liked to look at.
