Arthur-Adrien Porchet
Arthur-Adrien Porchet (born May 11, 1879 in Neuchâtel , † February 1, 1956 in Lausanne ) was a Swiss cameraman .
Life
After graduating from business school, Arthur Porchet completed eight years of training as a photographer in Geneva and further training as a cinematographer for the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière in Lyon . From 1912 he worked as a cameraman and laboratory technician in the USA and in 1914 became the technical director of the Gaumont production company in Flushing ( New York City ). In 1920 he built a film studio with a laboratory for the Eagle film in Jacksonville (Florida) .
Arthur Porchet returned to Switzerland as a representative of American film companies and shot numerous documentaries for them. In 1922 he founded Mundus Film . From 1923 to 1927 he was the technical director of the first Swiss film weekly show . In 1928 he founded the AAP film studio in Geneva (later Cinégram ). From 1932 he was involved in setting up the first Spanish recording studio and worked in Barcelona in 1937 until he returned to Switzerland.
Arthur Porchet worked as a cameraman, producer and director for Orphea Film until 1938, then until 1946 for Swiss productions.
Arthur Porchet was the father of Adrien Porchet and Robert Porchet (born October 18, 1908 in Geneva).
The Arthur-Adrien Porchet papers are kept in the Cinémathèque suisse ( Swiss film archive )
Filmography
- 1920: The Louisiana Purchase
- 1922: Une sauvetage au Grand Saint-Bernard
- 1922: Mon voyage en Suisse
- 1923: The call of the mountains ( L'appel de la montagne )
- 1925: Children's faces ( Visages d'enfants )
- 1928: La paysanne au travail
- 1939: Mobilization 39 / Gränzbsetzig 39
- 1939: Notre armée / Our army
- 1942: Le drapeau de l'humanité
- 1942: L'oasis dans la tourmente / oasis in the storm
- 1946: En regardant vivre les aveugles
literature
- Freddy Buache : Le cinéma suisse: 1898–1998. P. 478.
- Hervé Dumont : History of Swiss Film. P. 72f and P. 106.
- Michael Gautier: Porchet, Arthur-Adrien. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ Papiers Arthur-Adrien Porchet: Archival description. Retrieved March 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Filmplakat, Gränzbsetzig 39. Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official Swiss organ, accessed on June 14, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Porchet, Arthur-Adrien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuchâtel |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1956 |
| Place of death | Lausanne |