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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.
Pathé
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Pathé SAS is a French major film production and distribution company, owning a number of cinema chains through its subsidiary Pathé Cinémas and television networks across Europe. Pathé is also the sec
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…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), Universal, Paramount, and Nikkatsu (all founded in 1912). Gaumont predominantly produces…
The Pathé Brothers by Adrien Barrère
Headquarters of Associated British-Pathé at 142 Wardour Street in London
Interior of the Omnia-Pathé in Paris, the oldest cinema of the Pathé group (no longer existing).
Exterior of the Pathé Bellecour in Lyon, built by the Pathé group in 1933 and which is still active