Snowball Fight (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #4 extract: Snowball Fight (1897)



Somewhat ironically: heartwarming. 
Bataille de boules de neige (Snowball Fight) is a nice early example - though not the first, that'd go to L'Arroseur arrosé (The Sprinkler Sprinkled) - of a long-standing tradition of French comedy that was especially rich, in slapstick form, during the silent era. 
With a simple, under-a-minute, story that simply features men and women having a snowball fight that a cyclist gets caught in between, this left me wondering: Do adults still have snowball fights? Did they ever? Or has global warming (governmental geo-engineers) ruined everyone's fun?

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