A crowd mills about at the racetrack until the jockeys come by on their mounts.
I have been spending the last couple of weeks looking at the Lumiere movies on Youtube and have been vastly impressed at their composition derived from photography, at their understanding of how to use movement to maintain interest and at their far-ranging subjects from all over the world. However, this is simply awful, worthy of James White, who photographed things very badly for Edison.
The screen is filled with a milling crowd, with no clear composition. We see the backs of people's hats instead of their faces and the jockeys on their horses, when they finally appear, take up only a few seconds and a small part of the screen. If this were a James White film I would give it a rating of two or three. Mr. White quite obviously did not know any better. The Lumieres did.
I have been spending the last couple of weeks looking at the Lumiere movies on Youtube and have been vastly impressed at their composition derived from photography, at their understanding of how to use movement to maintain interest and at their far-ranging subjects from all over the world. However, this is simply awful, worthy of James White, who photographed things very badly for Edison.
The screen is filled with a milling crowd, with no clear composition. We see the backs of people's hats instead of their faces and the jockeys on their horses, when they finally appear, take up only a few seconds and a small part of the screen. If this were a James White film I would give it a rating of two or three. Mr. White quite obviously did not know any better. The Lumieres did.
