Ruraux au galop (1896)

Original title

Carga de rurales

Directed by

Gabriel Veyre

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1 min

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of Mexican rural police ride horses in formation. The short documentary shows their mounted drill or movement.

historicalsilentshortobservationalstagedactionstraightforwardarchival

What happens

Carga de rurales is an 1896 Mexican short black-and-white silent documentary film directed by Gabriel Veyre, who was born in France but is known mainly for his work in Mexico, Indochina and Morocco. The film is public domain worldwide due to its age. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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