First POV shots ever inside fireplace, fridge and trunk?

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Lokke Heiss
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First POV shots ever inside fireplace, fridge and trunk?

Post by Lokke Heiss » Sun Mar 03, 2019 8:42 pm

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

Post by Lokke Heiss » Fri Mar 08, 2019 9:58 pm

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.
"You can't top pigs with pigs."

Walt Disney, responding to someone who asked him why he didn't immediately do a sequel to The Three Little Pigs

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

Post by Spiny Norman » Sun Mar 10, 2019 7:56 am

The household refrigerator is in fact even younger than the moving picture!
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