three short films, all less than a minute, b&w, silent.
Production : Lumière, catalogue nos. 30, 53, 56
Content : these ‘views’, as the Lumière short films were known, were shot in the Crystal Palace park at Sydenham, south London, and show members of a Javanese performance troupe performing for the camera, with their fellow performers as an audience.
They were shot by the Italian-born cameraman, Alexandre Promio, while he was on a visit to London in July and August 1896. Promio was responsible for at least a quarter of the total number of 1428 ‘views’ that the Lumière company produced.
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