Sunday 20 September 2020

Better than what follows

 Buffalo Dance (1894)


Directed by William K. L. Dickson this is an early short film. We see members of the Sioux tribe perform a “Buffalo Dance”.


Early cinema does a better job of showing native Americans on camera than most films of the next century did. This small snippet of film catches a moment of lost history. An interesting historical record if nothing else.


3/5

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