''Driving with Greenland Dogs'', ( da, Kørsel med grønlandske hunde), is a

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silent film made in 1897 by the

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. It was the first movie sequence filmed in

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. The film, less than one minute in length (10 meters of 35 mm film), shows a Danish colony manager named Johan Carl Joensen driving a sledge pulled by Greenlandic sled dogs through Fælledparken in

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. In the short sequence, the dog sled is driven toward the camera across a flat snow-covered landscape, it disappears out of the picture, and then reappears from the other side with the driver chasing behind. Elfelt shot the film using a camera he had constructed from detailed plans that Elfelt obtained from the French inventor,

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''Kørsel med Grønlandske Hunde''
on YouTube 1890s short documentary films 1897 films Danish black-and-white films Danish short documentary films Danish silent short films Danish-language films Mushing films {{short-silent-documentary-film-stub