Gabriel Veyre

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

Life

Gabriel Veyre was a pharmacist and started in the company of the brothers Lumière to work because he hoped for an adventure and a good living for his family. On July 19, 1896, he arrived in New York to present the cinematograph and to apply. Together with Claude Ferdinand Bon Bernard led a Veyre the Cinématographe in Mexico. On August 6, 1896 they led before the device the president Porfirio Díaz and his family, as well as some important personalities such as cabinet members. Three weeks later they began public screenings in public. Veyre also began to turn the first films in Mexico. This showed especially the President on several occasions. For example, General Díaz walk through Chapultepec Park, which showed the Mexican head of state for the first time in the film. Mostly, he directed and produced, while Bernard was the cameraman.

The end of 1896 he left Mexico, and came to Cuba on January 15, 1897. He settled in the Prado street and began on January 24 with screenings. Popular with the public were imported films like The arrival of a train at the station in La Ciotat or The Arrival of the Czar in Paris. In Havana Veyre filmed about working in a fire station. Here, he was accompanied by María Tubau, a well-known theater actress. The story goes that she had merely want to see the firefighters at work. It is more likely that they wanted to record the accompaniment of Veyre in his work contact with the new, interesting for their careers medium. Veyre also turned shots of military maneuvers for propaganda purposes, which had been entering the country edition of the Spaniards.

In August 1897 Veyre reached Caracas in Venezuela. He then traveled to Martinique and Colombia. In October 1897, Gabriel Veyre came back to Paris, to travel only a short time later about Canada to Japan, where he François -Constant Girel replaced in October 1898 as an agent of the Lumières. To Veyre held between February and April 1899 in China and worked in the sequence in Hanoi in Indochina in February 1900 until he returned again to Paris. 1900 or 1901, he left the company Lumiere. He traveled as an independent projectionist to Morocco, where he performed the Sultan Abd al - Aziz photography and film. Until 1907, Veyre held on there and also made ​​to photographs that he published. 1908 Gabriel Veyre returned back to Morocco and stayed there until his death in 1936.