The exhibition of cinematographic views in Mexico City and Guadalajara by Fernand Bon Bernard and Gabrielf Veyre, Lumiere agents active in Mexico between July 1896 and January 1897, is examined. Drawing on newspaper announcements and reports, the article charts the process by which the cinématographe became an established attraction in Mexico City's elite public sphere, and briefly discusses the exhibition of the device in Guadalajara. The discourse that circulated in newspapers wherein cinematoraphic views were associated with nineteenth-century engravings, photographs and lantern slide projections is also considered
Contribution to an anthology of previously unpublished articles relating to cinema and the city. The article relates representations of Mexico City published in nineteenth-century lithographs and photographs to images of the city in early acturality film produced in Mexico between 1896 and 1925.