Nearly an innovation. The camera here isn’t placed to capture the standard Lumièrian diagonal. They put it right in the middle of the road! A little bit of more than just movie suspense accrues. What are these horsemen going to do now?
Well, in this case, they just pull their mounts up short. Makes sense. A bit of a let-down! Or, really interesting. Someday someone will dig a hole in that road and put the cameraman right into it. Not yet though. Still, that mounted approach and spirited arrival are still pretty exciting.