Le maréchal-ferrant
About Le maréchal-ferrant
An assistant works the forge, keeping the coals hot. A farrier takes a horse's hoof and prepares it for a new shoe. The view stays on the forge and the animal.
Cast & crew
More about Le maréchal-ferrant
Catalogue Lumière view number 62. Louis Lumière filmed it at La Ciotat in the spring of 1896. Le Progrès listed it in Lyon on 26 April 1896 as Le Maréchal-ferrant. The catalogue records a Lumière negative and four Lumière copies.
Themes
Background
One of the trade views Lumière shot around La Ciotat in 1896 and then put on a Lyon programme that April.
Look
Louis Lumière filmed the forge at La Ciotat from a fixed camera, with the horse, the farrier, and the helper filling the frame.
Preservation
The Lumière catalogue lists a negative and four company copies.
Notes
- The catalogue line is almost the whole action: the helper stirs the fire while the farrier readies the hoof.
Scenes
- The assistant pumps the fire while the farrier works the hoof.
