Direction
Promio's static framing invented the establishing shot.
Production
Actual Queen Victoria. In motion. Wild.

Director
Alexandre Promio
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee was the first global media event—filmmakers competed to capture it, making this cinema's earliest 'content race.'
This film exists because the Lumière company sent cameramen worldwide to document 'exotic' spectacles for European audiences—a colonial gaze in 60 seconds.
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