Gabriel Veyre

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Duel au pistolet by Gabriel Veyre from 1896

Gabriel Veyre (born February 1, 1871 in Septème , Département Isère , † January 13, 1936 in Casablanca ) was a French filmmaker of early cinema. He is known for his work in Mexico , Cuba , Indochina and Morocco . Veyre helped launch the film in Mexico as an agent for the Lumière brothers .

Life

Still images from various short films made by Gabriel Veyre in Atequiza in 1896

Veyre was a pharmacist and began to work in the Lumière brothers ' company because he was hoping for adventure and a good livelihood for his family. On July 19, 1896, he reached New York to introduce the Cinématographe and advertise it. Together with Claude Ferdinand Bon Bernard , Veyre introduced the cinematograph in Mexico. On August 6, 1896, they demonstrated the device to President Porfirio Díaz and his family, as well as some important personalities such as cabinet members. Three weeks later, they began public screenings in front of an audience. Veyre also began making the first films in Mexico. These mainly showed the president on various occasions. General Díaz, for example, walks through Chapultepec Park , which first showed the Mexican head of state in a film. Most of the time he directed and produced while Bernard was the cameraman.

Still picture of a village, taken in Indochina in 1899

At the end of 1896 he left Mexico again and arrived in Cuba on January 15, 1897. It settled on Prado Street and started showing films on January 24th. Imported films such as The Arrival of a Train at the Train Station in La Ciotat or The Arrival of the Tsar in Paris were popular with the public . In Havana, Veyre filmed work in a fire station. María Tubau , a well-known theater actress, accompanied him . One anecdote has it that she just wanted to see the firefighters at work. It is more likely that she wanted to make contact with the new medium that was interesting for her career by accompanying Veyre in his work. Veyre also shot recordings of military maneuvers for propaganda purposes , which was a requirement of the Spaniards upon entry.

In August 1897, Veyre reached Caracas in Venezuela and traveled to Martinique and Colombia . Gabriel Veyre returned to Paris in October 1897, only to travel to Japan via Canada a short time later , where he succeeded François-Constant Girel as agent of Lumières in October 1898 . Veyre stayed in China between February and April 1899 and subsequently worked in Hanoi in Indochina until he returned to Paris in February 1900. In 1900 or 1901 he left the Lumière company. He traveled to Morocco as an independent projectionist , where he presented photographs and films to Sultan Abd al-Aziz . Veyre stayed there until 1907 and also took photographs that he published. In 1908 Gabriel Veyre returned to Morocco and stayed there until his death in 1936.

literature

  • Leslie Bethell: A cultural history of Latin America: literature, music, and the visual arts in the 19th and 20th centuries . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998, ISBN 0521623278 .
  • David R. Maciel, Joanne Hershfield: Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers. Sr Books, 1999, ISBN 0585241104 .

Web links

Commons : Gabriel Veyre  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c biography on victorian-cinema.net, accessed January 24, 2012.
  2. ^ David R. Maciel, Joanne Hershfield: Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers. Sr Books, 1999, ISBN 0585241104 . Page 5.
  3. ↑ a b Leslie Bethell: A cultural history of Latin America: literature, music, and the visual arts in the 19th and 20th centuries . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998. page 455
personal data
SURNAME Veyre, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French early cinema filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Septème , Isère department
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1936
Place of death Casablanca