Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with her bare hands.
An 1895 Lumière-era actuality film capturing a brief domestic moment—a man holding a baby near a fishbowl. There is virtually no plot or ending in any narrative sense, earning the lowest marks in those categories. Acting is irrelevant as this is an unscripted documentary slice of life, scoring average for the era. Cinematography is rudimentary even by early cinema standards. Novelty receives a modest boost as an artifact of cinema's very origins, representing the raw novelty of moving images capturing everyday life, though it is not among the most iconic or technically distinctive early films.