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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 .
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.
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.
…Pictures, founded by the engineer-inventor Léon Gaumont in 1895. Though never more than one-fourth the size of Pathé, Gaumont followed the same pattern of expansion, manufacturing its own equipment and mass-producing films under a supervising director (through 1906, Alice Guy, the cinema’s first female director; afterward, Louis Feuillade).
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.
In 1893, Gaumont went to work for Félix Richard in his shop, the Comptoir géneral de photographie, at 57 rue Saint-Roch in Paris. Richard became embroiled in a legal battle with his brother Jules and, in June 1895, offered to sell out to Léon Gaumont.
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May 14, 2016 · On May 10, 1864, Léon Gaumont, the man who changed the history of cinema, was born. Brought up in Paris in a modest family, he was constantly looking to improve himself, to the point of taking evening classes when he had to work at age 16 to earn a living.
