Driving with Greenland Dogs

1897 Danish film

1897 (1897)

Running time

<1 minutesCountryDenmarkLanguageSilent Film

Driving with Greenland Dogs (Danish: Kørsel med grønlandske hunde),^[1] is a Danish silent film made in 1897 by the photographer Peter Elfelt. It was the first movie sequence filmed in Denmark.^[2] The film, less than one minute in length (10 meters of 35mm film), shows a Danish colony manager named Johan Carl Joensen driving a sledge pulled by Greenlandic sled dogs through Fælledparken in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the short sequence, the dog sled is driven toward the camera across a flat snow-covered landscape, it disappears out of the picture, and then reappears from the other side with the driver chasing behind. Elfelt shot the film using a camera he had constructed from detailed plans that Elfelt obtained from the French inventor, Jules Carpentier.^[3]

References

^ Sundholm, J.; Thorsen, I.; Andersson, L.G.; Hedling, O.; Iversen, G.; Møller, B.T. (2012). Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema. Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Scarecrow Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-8108-7899-0. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
^ Tyberg, Casper 100 Års Dansk Film, Rosinante, (2001), 445pg, p17, ISBN 87-621-0157-9
^ "Peter Elfelt – Danmark Nationalfilmografi". Archived from the original on 6 September 2007. Retrieved 15 June 2008.