The Snowshoers
- Media type
- Film
Les raquetteurs · The Snowshoers · MOVIE
Documentary 1958
About this title
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.