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Léon Ernest Gaumont ( French: [ɡomɔ̃]; 10 May 1864 – 10 August 1946) was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry. He founded the world's oldest operating film studio, Gaumont Film Company, and worked in partnership with Solax Studios .
Léon Gaumont est un inventeur et industriel français, né le 10 mai 1864 à Paris et mort le 9 août 1946 à Sainte-Maxime, pionnier de l'industrie mondiale du cinéma et fondateur de la société Gaumont.
In 1895, when 31-year-old Léon Gaumont took the reins of the Comptoir Général de la Photographie, he never would have suspected that he was going to create the only company in the world that is now as old as cinema itself. The company then sold optical and photographic equipment.
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Originally dealing in photographic apparatus, the company began producing short films in 1897 to promote its make of camera-projector. Léon Gaumont's secretary Alice Guy-Blaché became the motion picture industry's first female director, and she went on to become the Head of Production of the Gaumont film studio from 1897 to 1907. From 1905 to 1914,...
Gaumont currently[as of?] has 938 films in its catalogue, most of which are in French; there are, however, some exceptions, such as Luc Besson's The Fifth Element (1997). Among the most notable films produced by Gaumont are the serials Judex (1916) and Fantômas (1913); the comic Onésime series, starring Ernest Bourbon; and the comic Bébé series, st...
Ciné Par is a majority shareholder with 69.92% of the voting rights: this entity is controlled by CEO Nicolas Seydoux. The other private shareholders are First Eagle Investment Management, Bolloré, and Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault. The company has a free float of 416,784 shares, which represents 9.75% of the capital and 5.99% of the voting rig...
In the first half of 2012, Gaumont recorded a profit of €7.7 million, which reversed the €0.6 million loss from the first half of 2011. The profit was driven by a 49% increase in revenue, which reached €50.1 million. The company cited the continued effects of Intouchables, which increased International revenues by 153%. Gaumont's current[as of?] ma...
Léon Gaumont selected the ox-eye daisy as the company logo to pay homage to his mother, whose first name was Marguerite (Daisy). Through the decades the logo has been redesigned several times, but the daisy has always remained present, even though its significance has been largely forgotten.[citation needed]
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1. Philippe Binant, Au cœur de la projection numérique, Actions, 29, 12–13, Kodak, Paris, 2007 2. Marie-Sophie Corcy, Jacques Malthete, Laurent Mannoni, Jean-Jacques Meusy, Les Premières Années de la société L. Gaumont et Cie, Afrhc, Bibliothèque du Film, Gaumont, Paris, 1999 3. François Garçon, Gaumont. Un siècle de cinéma, Gallimard, coll. "Découvertes Gallimard" (nº 224), Paris, 1992 4. Philippe d'Hugues et Dominique Muller, Gaumont, 90 ans de cinéma, Éditions Ramsay, Cinémathèque Français...
Léon Gaumont was born on 10 May 1864 in Paris, France. He was a producer and editor, known for The First Men in the Moon (1919), Images de Chine (1905) and La nuit de noces de Calino (1911). He was married to Camille Maillard.
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Léon Gaumont was born on May 10, 1864 in Paris, France. He was a producer and editor, known for The First Men in the Moon (1919), Images de Chine (1905) and La nuit de noces de Calino (1911). He was married to Camille Maillard. He died on August 10, 1946 in Sainte-Maxime, Var, France.
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Born in Paris in 1864, his father a coachman and his mother a housekeeper, Léon Gaumont was a bright student of the Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris. Finishing top of his class in the sciences, Gaumont thought he could go to an engineering school.
