Arab Cortege, Geneva
MovieTitle | Cortège arabe |
User score | 5 |
Release date | May 8, 1896 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Alexandre Promio |
Production country | France, Switzerland |
Production companies | Lumière |
Run time | 1 min. |
A stationary camera looks across a busy corner toward a store front marked "The Divan." The words "des fees" are beneath. A cortege of Arabs, about 20 persons in the party, walk past; the dignitaries are in front, attended by men with horns and drums. Coming in the other direction are local Swiss, who pay little attention, and a group of native-garbed Africans. The dozen or so well-dressed denizens of Geneva who are sitting on the steps of the Divan take it all in.