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Horse Shoeing (1893)

Horse Shoeing poster
Directed by
William Kennedy Dickson
Genre
documentary film, silent film, drama film, essay film
Country
United States
Runtime
1 min
Rating
3.0 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a very early black and white silent film showing a blacksmith shoeing a horse. It documents a simple work activity from the 1890s.

shortsilentobservationalhistoricalmatter-of-factstraightforward

What happens

Horse Shoeing est un court métrage documentaire en noir et blanc américain réalisé en 1893 par William Kennedy Laurie Dickson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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