| Driving with Greenland Dogs | |
| Native Name: | Kørsel med grønlandske hunde |
| Director: | Peter Elfelt |
| Starring: | Johan Carl Joensen |
| Cinematography: | Peter Elfelt |
| Runtime: | <1 minutes |
| Country: | Denmark |
| Language: | Silent Film |
Driving with Greenland Dogs (Danish: Kørsel med grønlandske hunde),[1] is a Danish silent film made in 1897 by the photographer Peter Elfelt. It was the first movie sequence filmed in Denmark.[2] The film, less than one minute in length (10 meters of 35mm film), shows a Danish colony manager named Johan Carl Joensen driving a sledge pulled by Greenlandic sled dogs through Fælledparken in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the short sequence, the dog sled is driven toward the camera across a flat snow-covered landscape, it disappears out of the picture, and then reappears from the other side with the driver chasing behind. Elfelt shot the film using a camera he had constructed from detailed plans that Elfelt obtained from the French inventor, Jules Carpentier.[3]