Arrivée d’un train à Battery Place
R: Alexandre Promio. P: Auguste & Louis Lumière. Fr 1896
Location: New York City, station of Battery Place. The train is the famous “El” (= Elevated Railway).

Grande roue
R: Alexandre Promio. P: Auguste & Louis Lumière. Fr 1896
Location: Chicago, corner of Wrighwood and Clark Street, near to the Giant Wheel

Descente des voyageurs du pont de Brooklyn
R: Alexandre Promio. P: Auguste & Louis Lumière. Fr 1896
Location: New York City, Manhattan, Brooklyn Bridge

“He (i.e. Alexandre Promio) was a member of the Lumière team that set out to conquer the United States, arriving early September 1896 and filming several scenes along the East Coast, in answer for a demand for American Lumière scenes. He left on 25 September (the negatives were developed in France), then moved on to Italy when he probably took the famous travelling shot from a Venice gondola, since claimed as the first time that anyone had moved the camera.”
Luke McKernan
Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema 

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