

The first royal influencer collab dropped in 1896 — and it's only 60 seconds.
Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by horsemen.
Cinematography
Single-take street chaos — the Lumière era's idea of a Steadicam shot.
Production
Actual tsars. Actual president. Zero permits, apparently.

Director
Alexandre Promio
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Promio shot this for Lumière — part of cinema's first global newsreel network, predating Pathé by years.
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