Alexandre Promio offers the audience a standard Lumiere shot of downtown, here, Church Street in Liverpool, with its streetcars, men walking about, carriages, and of course the buildings that populate this exotic, bustling metropolis, filled with Scotsmen and other exotic creatures.
It's one of many downtown views offered by the Lumieres, from London to the Ginza in Tokyo, with an eye towards the mass transportation that makes such locations possible .... although with the Ginza, the transportation offered is men pulling rickshaws.
Promio was one of those people sent from the Lumiere factory to exhibit films, find local people to set up exchanges and theaters, and to make some movies of the local points of interest. He traveled in Sweden, Russia, and Great Britain. After 1898, he resided in Lyons, where he became a stills photographer, and in Algeria. He died in 1926 at the age of 58.
