Son of the photographer Marc Ferrez, he set up with his father the second film theatre to be built in Rio de Janeiro, the Cine Pathé, inaugurated in 1907. Júlio Ferrez (1881-1946), linked with the French cinema groups Pathé and Gaumont, expanded his activities, producing and photographing films about various events to do with the police, operetas and comedies – amongst which Nhô Anastácio Chegou de Viagem, (Mr. Anastácio has arrived from his travels, 1908), is held to be the first to be made in Brazil.
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