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TIENTSIN
Jean-Claude SEGUIN
Tientsin est une ville de Chine.
1897
L'Animatoscope d'H. Welby Cook (< 1er juillet 1897)
Harry Welby Cook présente son animatoscope :
AN enterprising showman, named Mr. Welby Cook, has just reached Hongkong after a tour in the interior of China with an “ Animatoscope,” Mr. Cook left Tientsin and reached Peking in company with Mr. Linton. Here he showed for 17 days with the utmost success, and be was engaged by Sir Claude MacDonald to give a display at the British Legation on the occasion of the departure of the French minister. Sir Claude is described is having keen delighted with the exhibition and at his request the picture of the serpentine dancer was repeated, The Chinese themselves were fairly captivated by the show and Mr. Cook has nothing but good to say of the treatment he received in the Imperial City. He also gave displays at the Spanish Legation and in public with the utmost success, The audience often included the Royal Princes and a son of Li Hung-chang, and a son of the Marquis Tseng was a patron every night M. Welby, who has a really firstclass collection of British and Continental views, opens at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night for short season.
Hong Kong Telegraph, mercredi 18 août 1897, p. 2.
Il se rend ensuite à Pékin.
1899
Le cinématographe de M. Hatch (< 18 décembre 1899)
M. Hatch propose une séance de bienfaisance en faveur de la Church Building Fund, mais des problèmes d'alimentation empêchent un déroulement normal :
MR. E. F. G. HATCH, M.P.,
is an enterprising man in more ways than one, he travels with a cinematograph and with an expert to take films illustrative of native life in the various places he visits. He kindly offered to give an exhibition in aid of the finances of our Church Building Fund. But the best-laid plans of mice and M. P.'s gang aft agley ; the gear of the oxy-hydrogen plant went wrong and an expectant public was disappointed at the last moment.
North China Herald, Shanghai, lundi 18 décembre 1899, p. 1212.