Sack Race
About Sack Race
Workers from the Lumière factory at Monplaisir, in Lyon, race in sacks between two lines of spectators. Runners stumble and fall. The crowd laughs.
Cast & crew
More about Sack Race
The Catalogue Lumière dates the view to autumn 1896 and names Louis Lumière as the operator. In the list he gave Georges Sadoul in 1946, Lumière marked this view as his own. The people in the picture are workers from the Lumière plant.
Themes
Look
Louis Lumière shot one outdoor view at Monplaisir: the racers in sacks, the two lines of onlookers, and the falls, with no change of setup.
Preservation
The Catalogue Lumière lists a Lumière negative and one Edison copy.
Notes
- The French title is Course en sacs.
- The Lumière catalogue text calls it a sack race between two hedges of spectators who laugh at the falls.
- The catalogue notes an uncatalogued remake, with several camera stops, shot around the same time as views 588 and 589.
Scenes
- Racers in sacks pitch forward while the lines of spectators laugh.
