Constant Girel
Camera
Born 1873-01-01
Died 1952-01-01
Seyssel (Ain)
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Constant Girel was the son of a pharmacist and studied the subject at Lyon, at which time his brother-in-law was employed at the Lumière factory. He was taken on as a Lumière operator some time in 1896, filming for them in Germany in September of that year, when he made contact with Ludwig Stollwerck and filmed Tsar Nikolas II's inspection of the German army at Breslau. It was the Stollwerk connection that no doubt led him to Switzerland, where he worked for another Lumière representative, Henri Lavanchy-Clarke, before filming the Tsar again towards the end of the year at Cherbourg and Chalons. On 6 December he left for Japan, arriving at Kobe on 9 January 1897, where he met up with the Lumière representative for Japan, Inabata Katsutaro. The pair then inaugurated the cinema in Japan with a program at Osaka's Nanchi Theatre on 15 February 1897. Girel's competence as a cameraman has been questioned, but he filmed a wide number of Japanese scenes, many of which ended up in the Lumière catalog. He returned to France after a year, being replaced by Gabriel Veyre, approached Pathé Frères but failed to find further work in film, and returned to pharmacy.
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Filmography
Directing
37 credits
II. Inauguration
Procession shintoïste
Dîner japonais
Chutes du Rhin vues de loin
Un pont à Kyoto
Une rue à Tokyo
Guillaume II et Nicolas II à cheval
Roi et Reine d'Italie
Görlitz : revue devant Guillaume II et Nicolas II
Chutes du Rhin vues de près
Pont de bateaux
I. Avant l'inauguration. Arrivée des souverains
Les Aïnos à Yeso, [II]
Danse Tyrolienne
Japanese Sword Fencing
Lutteurs japonais
Danseuses japonaises : la danse des ombrelles
Les Aïnos à Ueso, [I]
Déchargement dans un port
Acteurs japonais : bataille au sabre
Pont sur le Rhin
Coolies in Saigon
Repas en famille
Arrivée d'un train
III. Défilé de hussards devant Guillaume II
Japanese Actors: Wig Exercise
Woodcutters
Bersagliers
Procession
Panorama pris d'un bateau
Acteurs japonais : danse d’homme
Danseuses japonaises : la danse des éventails
Cherbourg: Entrée des souverains russes et du président de la République sous le hall
Cherbourg : débarquement des souverains russes
Sortie d’un temple shintoïste
Défilé du 8e bataillon
Une scène au théâtre japonais
Acting
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