The Adventures of Gabriel Veyre Around the World

Gabriel Veyre was a cinematographer for the Lumière brothers and an inventor of cinema. Travelling with his camera, he was dedicated to capturing the wonderful vitality of the world around him on film for the first time. The first set of films, produced between 1896 and 1900, were shot in locations ranging from France to Indochina, Mexico, Japan and Canada, and are presented in restored copies. The second set of films were shot in Morocco between 1934 and 1935. These colour films reveal not only the conditions of life in the country, but also Veyre’s agile and sensitive approach to filmmaking.