The Snowshoers

Original title: Les raquetteurs
Duration: 15 min
Release date: 1958-01-01
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This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema.

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Les raquetteurs

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