Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema

★★★★★

false / 50 MIN. / 1995

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The Synopsis

A documentary about cinematographer Gabriel Veyre's adventures introducing cinema to Japan and South America. Veyre was a traveling cameraman for the Lumiere Co. He declared cinema dead only 2 years after its inception after he saw a villager jerk a woman's head to face the camera when he was filming a small group of them.

Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema

The Genres

The Synopsis

The Cast

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