Years active 1896 - 1936 Movies Carga de rurales Education University of Lyon | Role Film director Name Gabriel Veyre | |
Full Name Gabriel Antoine Veyre Died January 13, 1936, Casablanca, Morocco | ||
Namo village panorama taken from a rickshaw 1900 1st reverse tracking gabriel veyre
Gabriel Veyre was an early film director and photographer born in France, but mainly known for his work in Mexico, Indochina and Morocco.
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- Namo village panorama taken from a rickshaw 1900 1st reverse tracking gabriel veyre
- Vistas de mexico gabriel veyre lumiere films company 1896
- Biography
- References
Vistas de mexico gabriel veyre lumiere films company 1896
Biography
Veyre graduated in pharmacy from Lyon University. In 1896, he traveled along with Claude Ferdinand Bon Bernard to Latin America, in order of show the early films made by the Lumière Brothers and to exploit the cinematograph.
Between 1896 and 1897, he directed and produced 35 films in Mexico, with Von Bernard as the camera operator. Many of those films feature the Mexican president Porfirio Díaz in daily activities.
After leaving Mexico, he continued touring Canada, Japan, China and Indochina. His films and autochromes were presented in Paris in the 1900 Exposition Universelle.
He continued his work in Morocco where he also worked as a correspondent for L'Illustration. He published the book Dans l'intimité du Sultan in 1905. Veyre remained in Casablanca until his death in 1936.
Some of his work is preserved at the Cinémathèque Française.