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Canadian CARNIVAL is a rather dry little B&W documentary highlighting a few of the escapades at a winter carnival in Quebec with random scenes of the various activities culminating in a fireworks display on the final day.

Shown are French Canadian kids making up their own games on ice; sled dogs racing to the finish line across snow and ice; sleighs (without jingle bells) competing in a race; a hockey match with a routine number of spills and thrills; Irish/French folk dances; Snow Queens; and, to bring the spirit of Carnival to an end, a fireworks display that is less exciting in B&W than it would be in color, of course.

In fact, it's the sort of winter documentary that would have looked much better if presented in color.

Canadian Carnival (1955)

** (out of 4)

Sportscope short takes us to Quebec as the city celebrates the Winter Carnival during Mardi Gras. We get to see the city folk as well as countless events like hockey, curling and dog sled racing. This is the second or third film I've seen from RKO-Pathe's Sportscope series and I haven't been overly impressed as of yet. The narration is just too dry to really work or at least make the film fun. The rather bland narration really makes one turn away from the sports that they are trying to show off. Another problem is the cinematography, which certainly isn't the greatest and at times thing appear to be too dark from where things were lit very well. The film remains mildly entertaining due to the events going on but that's about it.