This very brief movie simply provides a picture of a lighter moment in the aftermath of a snowstorm in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The technique is not notable in itself, aside from providing one of many examples of the kinds of material with which the earliest film-makers experimented. This is supposed to have been one of a number of movies shot at about the same time and place, covering similar material.
The camera captures a view along a city street, from the diagonal perspective that is so familiar in movies made in the 1890s. The main point of it is to capture first the routine activity along the street, and then a light-hearted competition between a couple of sleigh drivers. The movie does not go on long enough to be really interesting, but it does all right in preserving the moment.
The camera captures a view along a city street, from the diagonal perspective that is so familiar in movies made in the 1890s. The main point of it is to capture first the routine activity along the street, and then a light-hearted competition between a couple of sleigh drivers. The movie does not go on long enough to be really interesting, but it does all right in preserving the moment.