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6/8/1896: Mexico's First Screenings
Mexican president Porfirio Diaz and his family were among the first in Mexico to see the first moving images when a special presentation was held for an invited audience at his residence in the Castle of Chapultepec, Mexico City on the 6th August 1896. The screening was held by Lumiere concessionaries Gabriel Veyre and Claude F. von Bernard. 10 days later, on the 16th August 1896, these same two men held the first public screening at 9 Plateros Street after a press screening two days earlier. During their visit to Mexico, Veyre and Bernard shot several reels of film, most of them recording President Diaz carrying out various presidential duties. They eventually shot 35 films in the cities of Veracruz, Guadalajara and Mexico. Representatives of Edison’s Vitascope also visited the country in the same year, but their inferior product failed to emulate the impact made by the Lumieres Cinematographe. [ADD]
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