Кендо :)
This is the first motion picture about kendo. (So the word probably in the movie title is not correct and it was confirmed after I had made the title. ) According to the deleted french narrator the film was shot in Kyoto during a kind of warmingup training of a kendo competition at the end of October 1897 by Constant Girel. Louis Lumière was apparently not satisfied with the work of Girel, for unknown reasons. Anyway, this is a true treasue of the Kendo World. I do not own any copyrights of the Information about the clip in french: For a collection of kendo videos througout the history visit: Kendo in the First Movies (c. 1897) In 1897, the Lumiere brothers sent their representative, Gabriel Veyre, to Japan, who made several short films about 3 minutes long: Geisha in a Jinriksha, Kendo Combat, Rain Dance of Spring.
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