![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](http://cdn1.retronaut.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
‘Bataille de boules de neige (also known as Snowball Fight) is an 1896 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière.’
‘Snowball Fight’,1896
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Haha! Look at that poor bicycler.
i can´t see it in germany!
It’s so easy to imagine how a society who only knew still photography would be mesmerised seeing such a simple scene with people actually moving about. Like a black and white photo coming to life.
And the stuntman profession was born.