Alexandre Promio
Birth : 1868-07-09, Lyon, France
Death : 1926-12-24
History
Jean Alexandre Louis Promio (9 July 1868 – 24 December 1926) was a French film photographer and director.
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Continuation of the previous one.” [cf. n ° 27] Panorama of the quays and the city.
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Exotic street scene with men riding camels.
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Panorama of the port of Algiers.
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An impression of the funeral parade for Victoria, Queen of England, filmed in London (via https://catalogue-lumiere.com/le-char-funebre/)
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Sailors row a whaling boat in a medium-tight shot.
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Part 10 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play, in which Jesus is nailed to the Cross.
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The Last Supper, part 6 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play.
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The Lumière catalog sold this title as 13 individual, one-scene films, allowing exhibitors to choose which films they wanted to purchase and how to arrange them in their programs. Lumière catalog no. 933 through 945.
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The first scene in the 1898 Passion Play
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Short film from 1897
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Sailors training with swords.
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Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor. (IMDb)
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Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.
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This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss the coronation.
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This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary writer, Jean-Paul Marat--who has the notorious distinction of having influenced the Reign of Terror.
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One minute costume drama from the Lumiere company.
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Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.
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A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.
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This one is modelled on the painting by Paul Delaroche and is an extension of the stage act known as “tableau vivant”.
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A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.
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As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.
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A shot of traffic, Sainte-Gudule in Bruxelles.
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A shot of traffic in front of Palais de la Bourse, Bruxelles.
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A shot of traffic, Place de Brouckère in Bruxelles.
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Another street scene of daily life.
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The main market square in the heart of Brussels.
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Also known as 'Un incendie à Dublin I', 'Crowds Watch City Fire Brigade' and 'Crowds Watch Dublin Fire Brigade.' Lumiere Catalog no. 710.
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Firefighters at work in Belfast.
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Another critically acclaimed Lumiere street scene.
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A street scene in Belfast showing several horse-drawn omnibuses.
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Lumière Catalogue No. 706. A moving shot taken from the electric train in Liverpool. Its vantage reveals ships and lumberyards.
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Lumière Catalogue No. 705. A view of the warehouses and docks taken from a local train in Liverpool, ending at the Princess Dock station.
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A moving image of the docks of Liverpool. Lumière Catalogue No. 704.
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Clarence Dock
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Street scene in Liverpool.
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Liverpool, the sparse. Boats in Liverpool.
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More 19th century city life.
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Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.
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Another parade film from the Lumiere company.
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Short film from (1897)
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A group of friends playing tennis.
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A fight breaks out between two men in medieval Stockholm, Sweden.
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A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.
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The Swedish Royal family arrives at the General Art and Industrial Exposition at Djurgården in Stockholm on 15 May 1897.
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Panoramic view of Constantinople.
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Panorama of Constantinople from the river.
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Beirut: place cannons.
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Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews - as a train leaves Jerusalem.
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The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.
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Small glimpse of city life in Jerusalem.
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This street scene from Bethlehem shows a crowd of locals jumping on something in the middle of camera range. What are they seeking? The implication seems to be that they are beggars jumping on a handful of alms tossed onto the spot and the effect is simultaneously funny and sad.
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![Panorama des rives du Nil, [VIII]](https://moviedb.kr/index.php/image/w500/thUL87Jjy0TOOHMjSDmpmFYybpr.jpg)
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![Panorama des rives du Nil, [VII]](https://moviedb.kr/index.php/image/w500/8NyAWBOroyqdfZnpdgkbvN7O10K.jpg)
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![Panorama des rives du Nil, [VI]](https://moviedb.kr/index.php/image/w500/rcS8owLK60VQqA3OI8jkkzh1bfo.jpg)
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![Panorama des rives du Nil, [V]](https://moviedb.kr/index.php/image/w500/xB587iQx9Arh8ZAzouj9bBCv2E6.jpg)
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![Panorama des rives du Nil, [IV]](https://moviedb.kr/index.php/image/w500/o3WmhW2FyZr70pBYWn830RUoRaY.jpg)
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![Panorama des rives du Nil, [III]](https://moviedb.kr/index.php/image/w500/5Isi2dTAK8J4QTegDkmz5fFHFit.jpg)
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![Panorama des rives du Nil, [II]](https://moviedb.kr/index.php/image/w500/9Um0jm80GFA7Dyi2n2Giam0G6Us.jpg)
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![Panorama des rives du Nil, [I]](https://moviedb.kr/index.php/image/w500/jPCyW781Z85ZXlGJJCfzzLZBCFo.jpg)
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Panoramic view of the banks of the River Nile.
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An artillery parade in Cairo near Cairo Citadel filmed by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière Brothers. Original title was "Défilé de l’artillerie turque"
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Descent of the Great Pyramid.
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A view of the Great Sphinx with two of Giza's pyramids in the background. A caravan passes the scene.
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Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.
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A funeral parade in Cairo.
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Procession of the sacred carpet.
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One reel containing actuality footage of Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street). Some of the earliest known film footage of Ireland.
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Passers-by on a street market in Marseille.
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Short from (1897)
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Porters bring goods into a warehouse.
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Another street scene from the Lumiere company
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A street scene with a government building in the background.
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An early Algerian film depicting donkeys
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A short clip from the Lumière Brothers.
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Children dig for clams on the beach
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The first travelling shot.
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Turcos regiment parade.
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A black and white short from the Lumière brothers in which a crowds is filmed at the Place de l'Opèra in Paris.
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Dragons escorting officers on horseback.
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Dragon Parade, then passage of several carriages.
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Parade of hunters and Spahis.
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Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by horsemen.
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A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left). Virtually overlooking the falls and surrounded by the swift current not far from the camera is a small island where six or eight tourists watch the water, talk, and move about.
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Rollerskating in Central Park.
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New York, travelers descent of the Brooklyn Bridge
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Brooklyn, Fulton Street
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Pedestrians, carts and trams traffic, on Whitehall Street in New York.
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Movement of pedestrians, cabs, carts and trams at the crossroads of two avenues.
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A short black and white film in which a fixed camera records a busy New York street, Broadway.
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Lumiere street scene.
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A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.
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Walking four abreast, in groups of six rows, 144 of Chicago's finest parade past a stationary camera. Each of the six groups that pass is escorted by an officer. All are men, all are white, all look tall, all wear identical high-buttoned uniforms and badges and carry a nightstick. Almost all sport mustaches. Behind the police comes a horse-drawn carriage.
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Boston, Commercial Street.
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A view of Piccadilly Circus in London.
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Pelicans move
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Teasing tigers with meat.
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A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the cage. The lion alternates between finding the food on the cage floor and reaching through the bars to swipe at the man, who stays alarmingly close to the beast. In the background are the large rocks and brick wall at the back of the lion's habitat.
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A large wedding procession.
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Soldiers dancing.
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![The Queen's Lancers: Charge [Spain]](https://moviedb.kr/index.php/image/w500/kxQeUJttVvRS6h0ywQaZNXvQWED.jpg)
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Short from 1896.
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Short from (1896)
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A street scene from Spain.
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Matadors exiting carriages in Madrid.
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Women and infants do laundry in this promotional film for Sunlight soap.
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Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.
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A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about 20 persons in the party, walk past; the dignitaries are in front, attended by men with horns and drums. Coming in the other direction are local Swiss, who pay little attention, and a group of native-garbed Africans. The dozen or so well-dressed denizens of Geneva who are sitting on the steps of the Divan take it all in.
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A short clip of United States military on horses
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A short film of boats sailing in the New York Harbor
