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Eugène Py
Born19 May 1859
Died26 August 1924

Eugène Py (19 May 1859 – 26 August 1924) was an early French cameraman, cinematographer and film director. Py is widely considered the founding pioneer of the cinema of Argentina.[1]

Life and career[edit]

Born in Carcassonne, Py moved to Buenos Aires in the late 1880s.

Py's early films included Visita del Dr Campos Salles a Buenos Aires (1900) (the first Argentine documentary), and La Revista de la Escuadra Argentina and Visita del general Mitre al Museo Históric (1901).[2] Py introduced the concept of recording history in the making in Argentina, by filming the arrival of the Brazilian president at the time accompanied by the Argentine president,[3] and filming Alberto Santos-Dumont during a small recording that went on to capture what is probably the first "gag" in the country's history (a third man kept standing between Py and Dumont, interrupting the film, until he received a spit in the face, upon which recording finished).

Py was one of the Lumière brothers' "operators".[4][5]

He died in 1924 in San Martín, Buenos Aires.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Who's Who of Victorian Cinema". www.victorian-cinema.net. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  • ^ "Things you should know about....Argentine Cinema | Latinolife". www.latinolife.co.uk. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  • ^ Stock, Ann Marie (1997). Framing Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-2973-2.
  • ^ Rist, Peter H. (8 May 2014). Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-8036-8.
  • ^ Rossell, Deac (18 October 2022). Chronology of the Birth of Cinema, 1833–1896. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-86196-964-7.
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