For this shot, roving Lumiere exhibitor and cameraman Gabriel Veyre placed his camera in a rickshaw and had it run, with the children of a village somewhere in Indochina running after.
It's an interesting shot, but although it was called a panorama, it was what is today called a trucking shot. In that era, any moving shot was called a panorama. Its modern meaning of a shot in which the camera was turned, offering the audience a wider field of vision: if not at once, then eventually. It would be in the middle of the next decade that the modern sense of a panorama or pan shot would come into use, most obviously with Billy Bitzer's "Pennsylvania Station Excavation" in 1905.
A shot in which the the camera moved forward or back as this one does is called a trucking shot, referring to the truck on which the camera is usually laid. It is related to the tracking shot, in which the camera is placed on rails. It's generally used on a set where the distance the camera is moved is short and smoothness of motion is more important.
For the moment, this was considered a panorama. Its interest lies in its mimicry of track shots without a physical track and its exotic locale.
It's an interesting shot, but although it was called a panorama, it was what is today called a trucking shot. In that era, any moving shot was called a panorama. Its modern meaning of a shot in which the camera was turned, offering the audience a wider field of vision: if not at once, then eventually. It would be in the middle of the next decade that the modern sense of a panorama or pan shot would come into use, most obviously with Billy Bitzer's "Pennsylvania Station Excavation" in 1905.
A shot in which the the camera moved forward or back as this one does is called a trucking shot, referring to the truck on which the camera is usually laid. It is related to the tracking shot, in which the camera is placed on rails. It's generally used on a set where the distance the camera is moved is short and smoothness of motion is more important.
For the moment, this was considered a panorama. Its interest lies in its mimicry of track shots without a physical track and its exotic locale.