Photography and Special Effects in Early Film

A Trip To The Moon does recall practices of early photography. One of the first things that I noticed was the frame, the camera did not move. Individuals were placed inside of  the view of the camera only, if they moved out of the frame they were cut off.  The scenery was very one dimensional (although good during that era). In the short film there is also a backdrop that is consistently used through each scene. In the Smashing Pumpkins video the holographic appearance of the artists while they were singing, also their stoic postures in both the short film and video can be related to early photography. Differences are; movement, in the Smashing Pumpkins video there seems to be more special effects such as the smoke, movement of water and fire among others. Most importantly toward the ending the bubble that airlifted the couple away.