People
This director first worked as a fairground exhibitor
Pathé
By this year, French cinema had stabalized
1908
Zecca's film that exemplifies Pathé's slow later panning shots
This background style was explored by Melies but continued by Pathe
Trompe-L’oeil
The French precursor of the Nickelodeon theater
populaire cinema
Described as ‘Pathé’s only rival'
Léon Gaumont
Event where the Lumiere's Cinematographe Géant was first exhibited
Paris World fair 1900
These are 3 of the important currents around the 1910s
film d’art, the serial, pictorialist melodrama
This was a shot often used to showcase the continuation or intricacy of sets
slow lateral panning shots
In 1904 this was remodeled from a wax museum into a permanent cinema
Musee de la porte St. Denis
Creator of the Gaumont house style
Alice Guy
This is the year that Pathé ceased the sale of it's films
1907
A style of film that was published in weekly installments
American style ‘novels’
Most early cinema was exhibited in (like the Théâtre Vignard)
Portable, fairground theaters
Sacha Guitry referred to film as
the theater of the future
The undisputed master of scientific cinema
Film comedy dominated until this year
1914
Directed by Jasset, this was the first important French serial
Nick Carter
The first producer/director to scout for locations, often making up a film story to fit a visually interesting location or event
Alice Guy
What percent of prewar French films have been irretrievably lost
70 to 90 percent
French film star that Charlie Chaplin based his characters off of
Max Linder (Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle)
Birth year of Alice Guy and Louis Feuillade
1873
Feuillade wrote all of the films in this series
La Vie telle qu’elle est
The location of one of the earliest and best known catastrophic fires in temporary cinemas
the 1897 Charity Bazaar (resulting in 140 deaths)
Pathé had this to say about Lafitte and Le Bargy
“you have gone well beyond the rest of us”