this be a bewildering and absurdist short . a miller and dress in white and make his way towards u from a windmill in a desolate landscape . although the image be par down and there be an obvious logic here . however and he be stop by the sweep and all in black because of his work . they start pummel each other for no particular reason do the snooty miller insult the sooty sweep . be this class war . whatever and he pelt his adversary with bag of grain which fly all over the fight and make redundant everything he have do prior to the fight and make redundant the windmill and so that all becomes as pointless a the fight . the miller grain whiten the sweep blackness later westerns wouldn not be so subtle and hero and villain be colour cod . be there a racial tint here . if this wasn not marvellous enough and the fighter be chase off the screen by a crowd of people who come from nowhere and an appropriately kafkaesque end to an odd story ( or be they just the social conscience rise up against a fight that negate order and purpose . ) and and very unusual in the day of early silent cinema . this mix of comedy and surrealism and and the absurd be an obvious forerunner for buster keaton and while the windmill remind u of one of the great thriller and hitchcock foreign correspondant .