| Bataille de neige | |
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| Directed by | Unknown |
| Produced by | Lumière brothers |
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| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
Bataille de neige (transl. Snow Fight), also known asSnowballing,[1][2] is an 1897 Frenchshortsilent film produced by theLumiére brothers. Filmed inLyon,France, it depicts a number of individuals engaged in asnowball fight on a city street.
The camera is centered on a pathway made through a snow-covered city street. On both side of the pathway, several men and women are engaged in asnowball fight. A cyclist rides into the path of the fight, and is hit by snowballs, causing him to lose control of hisbicycle and fall to the ground. His cap is flung onto the pathway. One male participant in the engagement grabs hold of the cyclist's bicycle and lifts it off the ground, and the fallen cyclist scrambles to his feet and yanks his bicycle away from the participant. After retrieving possession of his bicycle, the cyclist climbs back atop it and rides away.[3]
Bataille de neige was shot in Lyon, France,[3] with acinématographe, an all-in-one camera, which also served as a film projector and developer. As with all early Lumière movies, this film was made in a35 mm format with anaspect ratio of 1.33:1.
Given its age, the copyright on this short film has expired. It is featured in a number of film collections, includingThe Movies Begin – A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894–1913.[4] In 2020 theNew York Times did a feature article about the film, written by Sam Anderson, after a Russian amateur film restorer posted a cleaned up and colourized version of the film toYouTube. The result is "shockingly modern" said Anderson.[5]
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