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| | Gaumont: A Century of French Film - Lloyd Eby |
 | | Gaumont--the world's oldest extant film company, established by Leon Gaumont in France in 1895--will celebrate its centennial in 1995, and it has assembled a collection of more than fifty films that spans its entire history, including shorts, features, classic silent serials, and actualites (newsreels). |
 | | Gaumont began producing pictures in early 1897, at first for the early picture arcades such as those of the Lumiere brothers, and after 1905, for the first motion picture theaters. |
 | | In these early years from 1897 to about 1910, film producers, directors, and performers were learning the basic grammar of film--such as various types of shots and framing, and different speeds of action--and also learning how to combine these elements into what we might call film-phrases, film-sentences, and film-paragraphs. |
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