Eugène Py (19 May 1859 â€" 26 August 1924) was a major early French
cameraman, cinematographer and film director and is widely considered
the founding pioneer of the cinema of Argentina.Born in Carcassonne,
Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France he moved to Buenos Aires in the
late 1880s.Py's early films included Visita del Dr Campos Salles a
Buenos Aires (1900) (the first Argentine documentary, and La Revista
de la Escuadra Argentina and Visita del general Mitre al Museo
Históric (1901). Py introduced the concept of recording history in
the making in Argentina, by filming the arrival of the Brazilian
president at the time accompanied by the Argentine president, and
filming Alberto Santos-Dumont during a small recording that went on to
capture what is probably the first "gag" in the country's history (a
third man kept standing between Py and Dumont, interrupting the film,
until he received a spit in the face, upon which recording finished). Eugène Py Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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