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DUBLIN
Jean-Claude SEGUIN
Dublin est la capitale de l'Irlande.
1896
Le Cinématographe Lumière de Félicien Trewey (Star Theatre of Varietes, 2->3 novembre 1896)
Félicien Trewey présente son cinématographe Lumière au Star Theatre of Varietes dans les premiers jours de novembre.
Music Hall and Theatre Review, Londres, vendredi 30 octobre 1896, p. 15.
Un long article publié dans The Freeman's Journal donne une explication détaillée du spectacle:
THE STAR THEATRE.
THE CINEMATOGRAPHE.
The management at the Star Theatre of Varieties deserve the greatest measure of praise and congratulation on the enterprise which has marked their action this week in providing for the amusement and entertainment of their patrons. The chief item of attraction on a particularly good programme is the exhibition of the original Cinematographe, under the direction of Mons Trewey, from the Empire Theatre, London. This very wonderful instrument produces with the most absolute correctness in every minute detail animated representations of scenes and incidents which are witnessed in every day life. To those who witness the exhibition for the first time the effect is simply startling. The figures are thrown anon a screen erected in front of the audience, and taking one of the scenes depicted -that of a very busy railway terminus into which the locomotive and a number of marriages attached dash with great rapidity, the effect is not only wonderful, but is so realistic that for the moment one is almost apt to forget that the representation is artificial. When the train comes to a standstill the passengers are seen hurrying out of the carriages. bearing their luggage, the greetings between themselves and their friends are all presented perfectly true to lite and the scene is an exact reproduction of the life and bustle and tumult which is every day to be witnessed at the great railway depots of the world. The representation of Westminster Bridge was equally attractive and wonderful. A representation of a cavalry charge, in which every motion of the galloping horses in the advancing line was distinctly marked, was a grand picture. The wedding of H R H Princess Maude of Wales, and the procession in St James's street after the ceremony, were magnificent and impressive spectacles, second only to the actual scenes themselves. The representation of the sea bathing was also wonderfully true to life. Here the audience witnessed the bathers jamping into the water and saw the spray caused by the plunge rise into the air and descend again in fleecy showers upon the surface. The exhibition is altogether the finest of its kind ever seen in Dublin. It is costing the Star Company a great sum for the engagement, but so novel and exceptionally attractive an exhibition should prove such a source of attraction in Dublin as to crowd the house to overflowing each night. The numerous representations will be varied each night.
Freeman's Journal, Dublin, mardi 3 novembre 1896, p. 7.
1901
Les Animated Photographs de la Maskelyne and Cooke's Provincial Company (mars 1901)
La Maskelyne and Cooke's Company, dont le responsable est David Devant, parcourt la Grande-Bretagne depuis le mois de juillet 1899, afin d'y présenter son spectacle fait de numéros de magie et prestidigitation. L'équipe vient de donner, pendant une quinzaine de jours, des soirées à Belfast. La troupe poursuit ainsi sa tournée en Irlande. À Dublin, les séances vont commencer le lundi 11 mars, aux Antient Concert Rooms comme l'annonce l'Irish Times .
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ANTIENT CONCERT ROOMS.- Maskelyne and Cooke's Mysteries, with a Co. including Mr. David Devant, are at present here. The mysteries displayed each evening fully uphold the traditions of the Egyptian Hall entertainments, the Great Box trick being one of the most appreciated. A series of admirable cinematograph films are also shown at each performance. It is hoped that the success of the entertainment will be such as to justify the management in paying us further visits in future. Nothing could exceed the excellence of the fare provided.
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| Irish Times, 11 mars 1901, p. 4. |
The Stage, 14 mars 1901, p. 2.
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Les séances vont avoir lieu pendant trois semaines, mais on ne dispose que de très peu d'informations sur les vues animées dont aucun titre n'est donné. L'équipe part ensuite pour Cork.
1903
Le Bioscope (Rotunda, 27 décembre 1903
A la Rotunda, le bioscope propose des projections animées le jour de la Saint-Etienne :
BIOSCOPE PICTURES AT THE ROTUNDA
The Irish Animated Photo Company paid a return visit to Dublin on St. Stephen's Day, and gave a display of their wonderful bioscope electric-animated pictures in the Round Room of the Rotunda. A matinee performance was given at 3 o'clock, and a second exhibition at 8. The perfection with which scenes taken from real life in different parts of the world are reproduced by the company is marvellous. By a close study of these pictures, depicting incidents in foreign countries, one forms a better idea of the reality than volumes of pen pictures would give. In fact, the spectator, while comfortably seated in the Rotunda can catch glimpses of foreign lands which could otherwise be observed only after tedious and expensive travel. Among the foreign scenes to which the audience is introduced ara the Canadian forests, showing the operation of felling pines in the North-West territory, dragging the huge logs over corduroy roads, lumbering, milling logs, etc.; Macedonia, showing procession of monks and refugees; the great salmon fisheries of the Fraser River, showing the actual capture of the fish, and the Indians at work in the finning factories; and an African ostrich farm, some of the world a notable entertainments are brought before the audience with remarkably life-like fidelity. The wonderful acrobatic feats of the Lauri Brothers were shown at Saturday's matinee. A number of Irish and British incidents were also depicted, including a rabbit poaching affray, King Edward the Seventh's visit to Ireland; and rescues by Brigademen at a fire. There were several picture of a humorous kind, so vivid and amusing as to draw roars of laughter from the audience. One of the scenes, entitled "Who Stole the Bike?" was so suggestive of fun as to be irresistible, in its mirth-provoking powers. Mr. Fred Matthews, who had a fine baritone voice of great power, contributes vocal items. The piece which he sang at the opening matinee, which had for its theme the glorification of England and its Empire, though as a vocal effort it was a fine performance was not relished by a section of the audience, who hissed their disapproval, not of the artist's performance, but of his subject.
The Freeman's Journal, Dublin, lundi 28 décembre 1903, p. 2.
