Aurélio da Paz dos Reis(1862-1931)

Aurélio Paz dos Reis was a Portuguese florist trader , amateur photographer who left a valuable photographic collection, republican revolutionary and a Freemason convinced, considered the pioneer of the cinema in Portugal by have produced the first Portuguese films, such as The Exit of the Operative Staff of Fábrica Confiança , which is in turn a replica of the first in the history of cinema , shot in France by the Lumière brothers in (1894 - 1895) La Sortie de LUsine Lumière to Lyon . The so-called "Kinematografo Portuguez", a designation used by Paz dos Reis to refer to the cinematographer invented by the Lumière brothers.