I hesitate to bring this before a forum dedicated to British photography, but I would be most grateful for comment, or at least to be pointed in the right direction. During the later 1920s in France there was a firm of street photographers - Philo-Ciné - who operated from various addresses. Their technique apparently involved taking a brief cine sequence of passers by, if lucky securing a payment, later printing out two contiguous frames from the negative onto a postcard, which was cropped and supplied to the purchaser. I know of two addresses for the firm - 1 Rue Halévy, Nice; and 76 rue Saint-Jean, Le Touquet, Paris-Plage - but there must surely have been others. Some typical images are attached here, and can be animated. Does any member have further information about this firm, or know of a published source? Information most gratefully received.
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I hesitate to bring this before a forum dedicated to British photography, but I would be most grateful for comment, or at least to be pointed in the right direction. During the later 1920s in France there was a firm of street photographers - Philo-Ciné - who operated from various addresses. Their technique apparently involved taking a brief cine sequence of passers by, if lucky securing a payment, later printing out two contiguous frames from the negative onto a postcard, which was cropped and supplied to the purchaser. I know of two addresses for the firm - 1 Rue Halévy, Nice; and 76 rue Saint-Jean, Le Touquet, Paris-Plage - but there must surely have been others. Some typical images are attached here, and can be animated. Does any member have further information about this firm, or know of a published source? Information most gratefully received.