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First POV shots ever inside fireplace, fridge and trunk?

Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 8:42 pm
by Lokke Heiss
This is a post that could also go on the silent film side, but still -

Saying anyone did anything in film "the very first time" is always producing the risk you could be wrong....
Having said that--

1) Can anyone come up with the first film that has a camera POV from the 'other' side of the fireplace? The shot that could only be done by using the devil or Santa Clause as the camera operator if it were a real fireplace?

2) And can anyone come up with the first time we have a POV shot from inside a refrigerator?

3) And finally, the FIRST POV shot ever from inside the trunk of a car? Surely a film had to do it before White Heat.

Re: First POV shots ever inside fireplace, fridge and trunk?

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2019 9:58 pm
by Lokke Heiss
So the first POV shot to take place behind a fireplace is ... John Ford's Hangman's House (1928). Let's see anyone beat that year.

Re: First POV shots ever inside fireplace, fridge and trunk?

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 7:56 am
by Spiny Norman
The household refrigerator is in fact even younger than the moving picture!