Lumiere Freres: Castle Place, Belfast

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Lumiere Freres: Castle Place, Belfast

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Location

Belfast

Year

1897

Date

1897

Length

44sec

Audio

silent

Format

black and white

Source

Irish Film Archive

Courtesy

Association Frères Lumière, Irish Film Archive

Rights Holder

Association Frères Lumière

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Description

Lumiere Catalogue No 719. This Castle Place street scene is one of a series of actuality films shot by the French filmmakers, Auguste and Louis Lumiere, in 1897, two years after the invention of cinematography. This is the first known material filmed in Northern Ireland.

Title was sourced from the Irish Film Archive.

Notes

The story of cinema begins with the Lumiere brothers, who were noted for their one-shot, one-reel films of places and scenes of every day life. In 1895 they patented the earliest version of the film camera. The Cinématographe was a projector, printer and camera combined. Having debuted their new invention in Paris at the end of 1895, the brothers sent their operatives out around Europe. They believed that film would prove no more than a passing fancy and so sought to exploit its monetary potential. Agents for the Lumieres arrived in Dublin in April 1896, only four months after the Paris screenings. This would be the first time that moving images had been seen in Ireland. By the following year they had made it to the North of Ireland and recorded footage in Belfast, including these moving images of Castle Place.  It is likely that Alexandre Promio was the cameraman who actually shot these scenes.  

Title sourced from the Irish Film Archive  

Shot List

Street scene with pedestrians, cobbled streets, horse pulled trams, horse and traps and gas street lights.

Credits

Photographer - Alexandre Promio

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