Alexandre Promio
Jean "Alexandre" Louis Promio (9 July 1868 – 24 December 1926) was a French film photographer and director.
He is mentioned as a pioneer in film and was the director for Sweden's first Newsreel.
The newsreel was shown for King Oscar II:s arrival at the General Art and Industrial Exposition on 15 May 1897.
Alexandre Promio came from an Italian family that moved to France and resided in Lyon.
During his time as an assistant to an optician in Lyon, he witnessed the first presentation of the medium of moving pictures cinematograph.
Promio was interested in the art of photography, and in March 1896 left his work at the optician to start working for Auguste and Louis Lumière.
After just some time at the work he became the boss for the film unit and got the responsibility for the education of the first cinematograph-operators.
His first assignment was to present and marketing of the new media worldwide.
Promio visited several cities between April 1896 and September 1897.
The first trip went to Madrid where he demonstrated the moving pictures on 13 May 1896
On 7 July he did a film demonstration for the Tsar Nikolaj II of Russia and the empress of Saint Petersburg, after that he visited England, Germany and Hungary.
In September 1896 he arrived in the US, and filmed the first films of Chicago.
In Italy he on 25 October 1896 filmed the city of Venice from a Gondola.
The film had its premiere on 13 December 1897 in Lyon under the title of "Panorama du Grand Canal vu d'un bateau" which shows the short trip of Canal Grande.
It was most likely the world's first moving film,
also the first being filmed by a moving camera.
After 1898 he did not do anymore travels and resided permanently in Lyon France where he continued to be an employee of Lumière.
In 1907 he filmed for Pathé and between 1914 and 1915
he was a soldier in the first world war.
After his duty in the war he became a still photographer and film photographer to the Algerian government, there he created 3000 photographs and 38 documentary films.
He returned to France sick and resided in Asnières-sur-Seine near Paris.
He died in his home on Christmas eve 1926.
His death however was not announced until four months after.
Chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée
The Chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée was a short- lived railway company in the south of France.
It was formed in 1852 and merged in 1857 with the Chemin de fer de Paris à Lyon and others to form the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée( PLM).
Gaston du Bousquet
Gaston du Bousquet( 1839 –1910) was a French engineer who was Chief of Motive Power of the Chemin de Fer du Nord, designer of locomotives and professor at École centrale de Lille.
Where Was I
" Where Was I?" may refer to:
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
Chemin de fer
Chemin de fer is a French phrase meaning" railroad" or" the railway".
Literally," iron path."
Chemin de fer may refer to:
Départ de Jérusalem en chemin de fer
Départ de Jérusalem en chemin de fer (translated into English as Leaving Jerusalem by Railway) is an 1897 film directed by Alexandre Promio and released by the Lumière brothers.
Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews - as a train leaves Jerusalem.
Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.

Question: Where was the place of death of the director of film Départ De Jérusalem En Chemin De Fer?
Answer: Asnières