Gaumont
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Gaumont SA is a French film and television production and distribution company headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont in 1895, it is the secon
A Spido reportage at the Fotomuseum Antwerp
Léon Gaumont, founder of the group and important inventor in the field of cinema
Alice Guy, first woman film director, launched by Léon Gaumont and later head of production at Gaumont.
Louis Feuillade, successor to Alice Guy, later a leading silent film director.
Edison's Black Maria
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The Black Maria was Thomas Edison's film production studio in West Orange, New Jersey. It was the world's first film studio.
Gaumont
…headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the second film studio after The Black Maria and the oldest extant film company in the world, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896), Titanus (1904), Nordisk Film (1906…
Edison's Black Maria Studio
A drawing of the exterior from 1894
Annabelle Whitford doing her "butterfly dance", recorded at the Edison's Black Maria studio