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Eugene Py
Eugene Py (19 May 1859 - 26 August 1924) was a major early French cameraman, cinematographer and film director and is widely considered the founding pioneer of the Cinema of Argentina.
Born in Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France he moved to Buenos Aires in the late 1880s.
He began working for the Belgian Henri Lepage and the Austrian Max Glucksmann at the 'Casa Lepage', a photographic supplies business in Buenos Aires. The three all saw the debut of the Lumiere Cinematographe in Argentina, in Buenos Aires on 28 July 1896, at the Teatro Odeon.
Lepage then imported the first French cinematographic ...
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