Footage of Julián de Ajuria´s wedding, held on 4 May 1921 in Lezama. Firstly, the footage shows the reception hosted by the bride and groom for friends and relatives at the bride’s family home, two days before the wedding. Next, the film shows the wedding held on 4 May 1921 at the Santa María parish church in Lezama. It captures the guests arriving at the church, the arrival of the bride accompanied by the person who gives her away, the ceremony itself, and the couple leaving the church.
Julián de Ajuria
Julián de Ajuria was born in Ubide (Bizkaia) in 1886 and emigrated to Argentina in 1906. Once there, he began working as a live narrator for silent films in Buenos Aires. He founded the Sociedad General Cinematográfica, a distribution company that introduced a system of renting film copies rather than selling them. He produced several feature films and became one of the most important film distributors in South America. Later, he turned his attention to buying and distributing films in Spain, becoming the first to introduce Paramount films through the Ajuria Programme initiative.
