Driving with Greenland Dogs
About Driving with Greenland Dogs
Johan Carl Joensen, a Danish colonial manager back from Greenland, drives a sled of Greenland dogs across the snow in Fælledparken, Copenhagen. The sled comes toward the camera, leaves the frame, and comes back from the other side with Joensen running after it.
Cast & crew
More about Driving with Greenland Dogs
Peter Elfelt photographed and produced it with a camera he built from Jules Carpentier's plans. It is the first film sequence shot in Denmark. The negative is 10 meters of 35mm, under a minute. The Danish title is Kørsel med grønlandske hunde.
Themes
Look
Elfelt films the sled head-on across flat snow, lets it leave the frame, and picks it up from the other side.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Joensen drives. Elfelt does not appear.
- The sled exits and re-enters, so the shot is not a single pass.
- Elfelt's camera was built from French plans, not bought as a Lumière.
- Ten meters is the length Wikipedia gives.
Scenes
- The team runs at the lens, vanishes, and returns with the driver chasing.
