The film was about a group of Polish ice skaters at the slide of the Warsaw Ice Skating Society. The film was filmed using a pleograph which was an early type of the movie camera invented by Kazimierz Prószyński.
Direction
Prószyński literally invented his own camera to shoot this.
Practical Effects
No CGI, just actual 1894 ice and pray nobody falls.
Director
Kazimierz Prószyński
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Prószyński's pleograph was patented in 1894, making this possibly the first Polish film ever made—and it beat the Lumière cinématographe to public demonstration.
The Warsaw Ice Skating Society was elite leisure culture; this wasn't just sports footage, it was flexing Polish modernity under Russian partition.
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