"Les forgerons"/"Blacksmith Scene" is a rather uninspiring 45-second short from 1895. It runs unusually long for that time and all we see is two hard-working men doing their daily business. The one in the white dress keeps hammering all throughout the film and later gives his finished work to a third men, while the second worker dressed in white keeps cranking from start to finish. It's an okay depiction of work, but has almost no artistic value that would make it worth watching. There's some smoke arising from their efforts and the one question i was asking myself the most is why are they so heavily dressed for their jobs. Etiquette I guess. Anyway, those two must have sweat and suffered like pigs under their thick uniforms. Not really worth watching though, just too one-note and a bit of a mystery why blacksmiths were depicted so frequently in the early days of cinema.
Review of Blacksmith Scene
