Camille Cerf (filmmaker), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Camille Cerf (filmmaker)

Belgian journalist and camera operator

Date of Birth: 31-Jan-1862

Place of Birth: Arlon, Wallonia, Belgium

Date of Death: 08-Jan-1936

Profession: camera operator, journalist, film director

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Camille Cerf (1862 - 1936), born in Arlon, was a Belgian filmmaker who worked with the Lumière brothers, mainly as a camera operator, during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
He was responsible for producing the first film in Russia, which was the recording the coronation of Czar Nicholas II at the Kremlin in May 1896.
On March 12, 1896, he organized the opening of Lumiere Cinematographe.