(Auto)vehicular realism in Romanian cinema. A personal trip

On May 10, 1897, the French-born photographer Paul Menu, who briefly became a Lumiere cameraman, filmed the royal procession on Calea Victoriei, a cinematograph, as it passed through the French-language newspaper L'Indépendance Roumaine, on its way through the streets of Bucharest. These are among the first moving images shot in Romania(n.b. - this under one minute is the only surviving surviving of all the Romanian views Menu made in his career). They are mainly documentary images: they record a historical moment (the parade on the day of the coronation of Carol I), they show a certain Stimmung of the time and they prove that at that moment, in that place, something happened. These first images are also our first publicity images, because (as we have said), if we consider the placement of the camera, we see that Paul Menu (whether on his own initiative or at the instigation of someone from the newspaper's editorial office, we do not know) perfect