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Thévenon, Etienne
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional
Details
Life dates
Lyon [F], 1852 - ?, 1919
Activity
1905 - 1906 Liège, Rue Auguste Hock
+ January 1919. Pioneering cinematographer. One of the first operators for the Lumière firm, Thévenon presented the "cinématographe" in Lille [F] between April and August 1896. Subsequently spent several years as a film exhibitor in the fairs of Northern France and Belgium, including Liège in October 1898. He also made short films himself, notably "End of Shift at the Cockerill Factory in Seraing" (1899). Thévenon was still exhibiting in Roubaix [Nord, F] in April 1906.
1907 Liège, Rue des Houblonnières, 26
1908 - 1909 Bruxelles - Forest, Rue de la Station, 26
Thévenon became director of the Métropole cinema in Brussels by 1913. Founder member and vice-president of the "Association Belge Cinématographique" in 1911.
+ January 1919. Pioneering cinematographer. One of the first operators for the Lumière firm, Thévenon presented the "cinématographe" in Lille [F] between April and August 1896. Subsequently spent several years as a film exhibitor in the fairs of Northern France and Belgium, including Liège in October 1898. He also made short films himself, notably "End of Shift at the Cockerill Factory in Seraing" (1899). Thévenon was still exhibiting in Roubaix [Nord, F] in April 1906.
1907 Liège, Rue des Houblonnières, 26
1908 - 1909 Bruxelles - Forest, Rue de la Station, 26
Thévenon became director of the Métropole cinema in Brussels by 1913. Founder member and vice-president of the "Association Belge Cinématographique" in 1911.
Locations
1905 - 1906 Liège, Rue Auguste Hock
1907 Liège, Rue des Houblonnières, 26
1908 - 1909 Bruxelles - Forest, Rue de la Station, 26
1907 Liège, Rue des Houblonnières, 26
1908 - 1909 Bruxelles - Forest, Rue de la Station, 26
Exhibitions
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1905 - 1909
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#4088
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 25.4.2017