Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema (1995)

夢のシネマ 東京の夢

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.

Production

Gendai Eigasha