Directed by: Peter Elfelt
This is considered the first Danish film in cinema history!
Filmed in Fælledparken in Copenhagen, Denmark, it features Johan Carl Joensen (a Danish colony manager) pulled by sled dogs. It is, perhaps unintentionally, shot in a similar way as the Lumière brothers’ L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat / Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896), except the subject approaches the audience and moves past their imagined right. In a comedic turn of events, the sled dogs re-enter the shot with an empty sledge and are chased by the man. Thus begins Scandinavian cinema.
Bibliography
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Sundholm, J., Thorsen, I., Andersson, L. G., Hedling, O., Iversen, G, Moller, B. T. (2012). Historical dictionary of Scandinavian cinema. Maryland: Scarecrow Press.
Det Danske Filminstitut (n.d.). ‘Kørsel med grønlandske hunde’, Det Danske Filminstitut. Available at: http://www.dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/film/da/19406.aspx?id=19406 [Accessed: 29 December 2021].
Wikipedia contributors (2021). ‘Kørsel med grønlandske hunde’, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 4 December. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B8rsel_med_Gr%C3%B8nlandske_Hunde [Accessed: 29 December 2021].
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