Procession à Séville III

1898 Documentary 1 minute

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About Procession à Séville III

A single Lumière view, catalog number 859, shows a Holy Week procession in the streets of Seville. Costaleros carry a decorated float. The shot is about a minute. It is not the later reel that also includes the bullfight views.

More about Procession à Séville III

Louis Lumière is credited with this 1898 actuality, filmed in Seville for the Lumière company. It is the third Seville procession view in the catalog.

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Look

A fixed Lumière cinematograph view of the procession passing in Seville.

Preservation

The view survives at the head of a Lumière compilation held by the Library of Congress and copied on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • The Library of Congress compilation titled En Espagne opens with this view, then Procession à Séville II (no. 858), then bullfight films shot in Seville, Nîmes, and Béziers.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Procession à Séville et scènes de corrida (1898).webm)