Environment
A Frigid Look Back at Moscow's Winter of 1908
Here's a nicely well-preserved peek into historical Moscow, complete with snow-skiing commuters and a frozen market of mushroom and fish.
Warm-weathered folks feeling jealous of New England's recent snow dump might get vicarious satisfaction from watching this footage of winter in Moscow, circa 1908.
The nicely well-preserved documentary was shot by Joseph-Louis Mundwiller, an Alsace-born cinematographer would go on to work on Crime and Punishment, Napoléon Bonaparte, The Chess Player and other weighty hunks of moviedom. Moscow Clad in Snow, as this film is titled, marks Mundwiller's baby-steps into the craft, showing him to be a sharp observer of the everyday mannerisms of city folk and a pious devotee of Moscow's god-sized architecture.