Eugène Py

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Eugène Py

Eugène Py (born May 19, 1859 in Carcassonne , † August 26, 1924 in San Martín (Buenos Aires) ) was a French - Argentine photographer , director , cameraman and pioneer of Argentine film .

Life

Py was born in Carcassonne in the south of France in the Aude department in 1859 . Py emigrated to Argentina in the late 1880s .

First he worked in the Casa Lepage, a shop for photography supplies owned by the Belgian Henri Lepage and Max Glücksmann from Chernivtsi . On July 18, 1896, the three saw one of the first performances of the Lumière Cinématographe at the Teatro Odeón in Buenos Aires, around a year after its debut in Paris . Then Lepage imported the first French cinematographic apparatus to Argentina. In 1897, Py shot the three-minute film La bandera argentina ( The Argentine Flag ) together with the German-born cameraman Federico Figner , which, presumably because of its title and the associated national symbolism, was officially regarded as the first Argentine film for a long time.

In the following years, Py made more films for Lepage and Glücksmann, who had established themselves as film producers and distributors and operated several cinemas in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile . His best-known works include Visita del Dr Campos Salles a Buenos Aires (1900), one of the first Argentine documentary films, as well as La Revista de la Escuadra Argentina and Visita del general Miter al Museo Histórico (1901). One of his most highly regarded work was the recording of a surgical procedure in 1900. With a Pathé camera he filmed the operation in daylight with two different shots from the long shot and in detail. Most of his works are considered lost or lost. Eugène Py died in San Martín (Buenos Aires) in 1924 .

Filmography (selection)

  • La bandera argentina (1897)
  • Viaje del Doctor Campos Salles in Buenos Aires (1900)
  • Tango argentino (1900)
  • La revista de la Escuadra Argentina en mayo de 1901 (1901)
  • El carlotero (1901)
  • Bohemia criolla (1901)
  • Pica, pica compadrito (1903)
  • Los políticos (1904)
  • Abajo la careta (1904)
  • Ensalada criolla (1905)
  • El soldado de la independencia (1906)
  • El pechador (1906)
  • Gabino, el Mayora (1906)
  • Los tocayos (1907)
  • Mister Wiskey (1907)
  • Dejá é jugar, ché, ché (1907)
  • Los Carreros (1908)
  • Cochero de tranvía (1909)
  • La beata (1909)
  • La trilla (1910)
  • Justicia criolla (1910)
  • Los escruchantes (1911)

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personal data
SURNAME Py, Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Argentine film pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Carcassonne
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1924
Place of death San Martín (Buenos Aires)