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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