A small fragment of film (silent and black and white) about the Pope. Pope Leo was the very first Pope to be recorded on film. There are many more scenes of the Pope from the same era. The quality of the film is sometimes very poor. Much events from this era were filmed, the coronation of Queen Wilhelmina (1898) and of Tsar Nicholas II (1894). Filming was a new medium at the time and luckily people in the late nineteenth century knew that events like these were worth filming. I would like to see these films being released on a DVD, who knows this might happen in the future (moreover since the election of a new Pope: Benedict XVI).

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The 1898 short M.H. Pope Leo in a Chair run for approximately 50 minutes in its preserved festival edition.

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