A man takes his telescope and trains it on a couple of apartments in nearby buildings. He sees some interesting things.
Ferdinand Zecca's early peep-show movie offers the audience a bit of titilation in a modest way. It is noteworthy because he uses a circular matte to frame his observations. He uses that matte to represent the restrict vision through that telescope.
Although the matte survives in modern film making, it is of limited utility. Here, as it would a half century later in Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW, it adds an air of voyeurism to the proceedings.