Notable Figures
Cinema tycoon and Charles Pathé’s rival, bought Comptoir Général de Photographie, where he focused on equipment rather than film production
Who is Léon Gaumont?
Pathe Freres abandoned its famous studios and set designers to imitate this kind of shooting
What is location shooting?
This was a popular subgenre that included medical and botanical films
What is scientific cinema?
Leon Gaumont renamed his firm this after a grueling lawsuit almost put it out of business
What is Comptoir General de Photographie Léon Gaumont et Cie?
This catastrophic event took place during the 1897 Charity Bazaar, attended by the Catholic haute bourgeoisie and elite of Paris society
What is a fire?
Léon Gaumont’s personal secretary who he tasked in film production, created the Gaumont house style and trained a team of filmmakers who would be the best in the business
Who is Alice Guy?
Pathe Freres quickly exploited a more profitable and standardized form of comedy based on the growing importance of this phenomenon
What is a movie star?
This genre of film was aimed at a socially elevated audience and was known for its restrained, efficient, and expressive acting
What is film d'art?
Before joining Gaumont in 1905, Louis Feuillade approached this man for a job in the film industry
Who is Ferdinand Zecca?
In 1900, the Paris World’s Fair gave the first exhibition of what?
What is the Lumieres Cinématographe Géant?
Alice Guy’s successor as head of production at the Comptoir Général de Photographie Léon Gaumont et Cie, created Fantômas, which was the crime serial genre’s biggest success
Who is Louis Feuillade?
A momentous decision made by Pathe Freres that had a profound impact on the cinema world, resulting in the exclusive rental of films
What is ceasing the sale of films?
This genre catered to a lower-class audience, experiencing a resurgence in popularity around 1911.
What are crime serials?
After the success of Comandon, this director/producer was hired by Gaumont to create competing scientific films.
Who is Mademoiselle Chevroton?
In 1925, this famous movie star committed a double suicide with his wife due to the loss of public adoration
Who is Max Linder?
French cinema’s greatest star of the pre-war period, comic, brought subtlety and genuine inventiveness to the comic character film
Who is Max Linder?
Both Melies and Pathe had little to no control over the outcome of their films due to these reasons.
What are economic downturns and deterioration of films?
This director arguably created the comedy genre with his film Le Jardinier et le petit espiegle, but did little to develop the genre further
Who is Louis Lumiere?
This man helped Gaumont begin his career in French cinema by hiring him as an office boy in 1881
Who is Jules Carpentier?
The enormous success of what film could have been interpreted against the rationalism of the late 19th century?
What is Fantomas?
Master of pictorialist melodrama, cinematic world based on homogeneity and continuity, emphasized beauty of the image for its own sake and also as a means of romanticizing its contents
Who is Léonce Perret?
This hero was introduced by Pathé Frères in their attempt at the serial crime genre?
Who is Nick Winter?
Traditional Melodrama was characterized by these elements: extreme polarization of characters, _________, strong emphasis on sensory elements, and dramatic climaxes.
What are episodic plots involving bizarre coincidences and sudden discoveries?
This one-word quality characterizes the Gaumont company's approach to filmmaking, setting it apart from Pathe Freres
What is Liberation?
(Will also accept Joy)
Which director is arguably coined as one of the first masters of French Cinematic Pictorialism?
Who is Feuillade?