Various figures go down a snowy slope.
This Lumiere movie was filmed in an extreme long shot, and the copy I looked at, derived from paper prints, has a number of flaws, so it is impossible to tell whether they are skiing, sledding, or just gliding down the snow-covered mountain on their bellies. By this time, alas, the Lumiere catalogue was being expanded by people who were not as fussy about composition and movement as the brothers had been early in their cinematic career. Almost any activity was a fit subject for making a movie, and sometimes the result is neither timeless nor something that can excite curiosity about the details of a bygone era. Under such circumstances, technical excellence can raise applause. That's not evident here.
This Lumiere movie was filmed in an extreme long shot, and the copy I looked at, derived from paper prints, has a number of flaws, so it is impossible to tell whether they are skiing, sledding, or just gliding down the snow-covered mountain on their bellies. By this time, alas, the Lumiere catalogue was being expanded by people who were not as fussy about composition and movement as the brothers had been early in their cinematic career. Almost any activity was a fit subject for making a movie, and sometimes the result is neither timeless nor something that can excite curiosity about the details of a bygone era. Under such circumstances, technical excellence can raise applause. That's not evident here.
