Arrivee a l'Exposition en bateau

by Auguste and Louis Lumiere, Alexandre Promio, Auguste, Louis

$650 · Offered by Royal Books · No longer available

N.p. N.p., 1897. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1897 short film, with the number 542 in manuscript pencil on the verso, with a still image from the film corresponding to that number on the website Catalogue Lumiere showing a similar scene. While the importance of the Lumiere Brothers to the invention and popularity of the moving image is well known, director Alexandre Promio, who filmed over 300 shorts for the Lumieres, deserves equal

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