{"id":135,"date":"2014-08-13T13:27:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T13:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2014-09-09T13:28:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T13:28:16","slug":"cinema-obscura-a-matter-of-life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/2014\/08\/cinema-obscura-a-matter-of-life-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinema Obscura: A Matter Of Life And Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/08\/amatteroflifeanddeath-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"amatteroflifeanddeath\" width=\"584\" height=\"437\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-141\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/08\/amatteroflifeanddeath-1024x767.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/08\/amatteroflifeanddeath-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/08\/amatteroflifeanddeath-624x467.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/08\/amatteroflifeanddeath.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>First in a series of Camera Obscurae appearing in the movies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whenever we take the camera out in public there's always someone who mentions a film that features an Obscura. So we're going to start cataloging them. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first in this list comes from Pete's favourite film of all time, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Matter_of_Life_and_Death_(film)\">A Matter Of Life And Death<\/a> from 1946. Here's the scene on YouTube (don't worry, there aren't any spoilers for the film) <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t1-K49nnvYw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It's a lovely scene that introduces Roger Livesey's supporting character Dr Reeves, an English eccentric who uses the camera to diagnose the village from above, foreshadowing a surprising amount of the film. <\/p>\n<p>It also features dogs looking at the projection, which is awesome. <\/p>\n<p>The camera is the classic tower design with the mirror rotated by a lever and projected onto a round table. There's also a lovely shot up to the mirror so you can see the workings.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/08\/big-brother.png\" alt=\"big-brother\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-142\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/08\/big-brother.png 500w, http:\/\/www.ash10.com\/bhamobscura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2014\/08\/big-brother-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The camera obscura appears in a surprising number of films &#8211; here's one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/search\/keyword?keywords=camera-obscura\">list on IMBD<\/a>. If you have a favourite do let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First in a series of Camera Obscurae appearing in the movies. Whenever we take the camera out in public there's always someone who mentions a film that features an Obscura. So we're going to start cataloging them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamobscura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}