Scieurs de bois (1896)

Directed by

Constant Girel

Genre

documentary film

Country

France

Runtime

1 min

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short film shows three men sawing firewood in a public square in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is a simple record of people doing physical work in the late 19th century.

repetitiveobservationalquietstraightforwardstaticutilitariandocumentary-stylemundane

What happens

Scieurs de bois è un cortometraggio del 1896 diretto da Constant Girel. Catalogo Lumière n° 93 Constant Girel, riprende nella place Saint-François a Losanna in Svizzera, tre uomini mentre tagliano la legna da ardere. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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