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Filmmaker · Tunisia

Albert Samama Chikly

Died in 1934

Albert Samama Chikly was born on 24 January 1872 in Tunis, into a wealthy Jewish family; his father was the Bey's banker. Curious about every technique, he introduced the bicycle, wireless telegraphy and radiography to Tunisia, and with the photographer Soler organised the first screenings of Lumière films in Tunis, in the late 1890s. He filmed the country from a balloon in 1908, tried his hand at underwater filming, covered the Italo-Turkish war in Tripolitania in 1911, then the trenches of Verdun for the French army. He died in Tunis on 28 December 1934.

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