Kørsel med Grønlandske Hunde

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Kørsel med Grønlandske Hunde
Directed by Peter Elfelt
Starring Johan Carl Joensen
Cinematography Peter Elfelt
Release date(s) 1897
Running time 1 mins
Country Flag of Denmark Denmark
Language Silent Film
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Kørsel med Grønlandske hunde (English: Traveling with Greenlandic Dogs), a silent film made in 1897 by Danish photographer Peter Elfelt was the first film made in Denmark.


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The film, only 1 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. Elfelt shot the film using a camera he had made for him from detailed plans that Elfelt obtained from the French inventor, Jules Carpentier.


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