The Snowshoers
The Snowshoers

The Snowshoers

Les raquetteurs

Release date : 1958-01-01

Production country :

Canada

Production company :

ONF | NFB

Status : Released

Durasi : 15 Min.

Popularity : 0.546

5.6

Total Vote : 11

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.