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The Snowshoers 1958

  • 1958-01-01
  • 15m
  • Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx
  • Canada
  • French
  • National Film Board of Canada
  • Documentary, Short
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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