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| 26/1 - | Pathe form the Compagnie des Cinematographes Theophile Pathe with a starting capital of 2 million francs to make low-budget films for the fairground trade. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| Apr - | Louis Feuillade replaces Alice Guy as head of production at Gaumont as Guy is appointed sales agent for Gaumont’s Chronophone in the United States. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 11/5 - | A festival organized by Photo-Cine-Gazette at the Elysee-Montmartre in Paris includes a session featuring Gaumont’s “Chronomegaphone” a device for projecting pictures with sound. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 20/6 - | Europe’s first feature-length film, the 90 minutes long l’Enfant prodigue, a filmed stage play made by Marcel Carre, is premiered at Theatre des Varieties, boulevard Montmartre, Paris. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 12/7 - | Edouard Benoit-Levy and Charles Pathe agree a contract that will enable Benoit-Levy to establish a network of Cinematographs across Switzerland and nine French provinces that will show only Pathe films. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 18/7 - | Leon Brezillon is elected first president of the newly founded French Union of Directors. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| Aug - | Charles Pathe opens his 18th overseas branch in Singapore. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| Oct - | Gaumont Studios employ 650 workmen and produce 15,000 metres of film per day from their 12,500 square-metre factory; Pathe’s 1200+ staff produce 100,000 metres of film a day and the company has an annual turnover of 4 million francs. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 15/12 - | Gaumont release Bluebeard after re-editing upon being considered “too cruel.” [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| – Erich Pommer begins his career in the cinema with Leon Gaumont.[MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – Pathe Freres produce Don Juan, a stencil-coloured film with synchronous sound.[MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| – Louis Lumiere develops a colour photography process using a three-colour screen. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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– Lafitte brothers form Compagnie des Films d’Art. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| – Pathe stop selling their films, choosing instead to rent them to exhibitors for a percentage of their receipts. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – Paul Lafitte founds the Société des Cinémas-Halles. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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France 1907: Other Films of Note |
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| Aladdin and his Magic Lamp (Pathe) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Boireau series (Pathe) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Les Debuts d’un Chauffeur (Georges Hatot) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| La Lutte pour la vie (Andre Herze) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Le Medecin de campagne (Etienne Arnaud) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Le Lit a roulette (Romeo Bosetti) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Les Debuts d’un patineur (Louis Gasnier) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Deux Cents milles lieux sous les mers; ou Le Cauchemar d’un pecheur (Georges Melies) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Hamlet, Prince de Danemark (Georges Melies) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| L’Homme aimante (Romeo Bosetti) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Le Petit Jules Verne (Gaston Velle) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Le Tunnel sous la Manche; ou le Cauchemar Franco-Anglais (Georges Melies) [MORE] [ADD] |