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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 .
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.
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.
And so began a great industrial adventure for two ingenious entrepreneurs: Charles Pathé and Léon Gaumont. Despite the competition between their business empires and their natural rivalry, both men respected one another and became friends.
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.
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.
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Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is 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).
