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  CNN.com - Gaumont hoping for drug-free sport - Feb. 24, 2004
French rider Philippe Gaumont, sacked by his team Cofidis after being involved in a doping scandal, said he still hopes cycling can clean up its act.
Gaumont and team-mate Cedric Vasseur were held for questioning last month in another doping case involving Cofidis, suggesting that the problem still plagues the sport.
Gaumont, who had earlier suggested that up to 90 percent of riders could be using drugs, added he had "tears in his eyes" when he heard of the death of 1998 Tour de France winner Marco Pantani, aged 34, earlier this month.
www.cnn.com /2004/SPORT/02/24/cycling.gaumont/index.html   (304 words)

  
  Gaumont Film Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont (1864-1946).
Gaumont opened foreign offices and acquired theatre chains Gaumont British, which notably later produced The Lady Vanishes) and along with its giant competitor, Pathé Frères, dominated the motion-picture industry in Europe until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
After significant post-war losses in market-share/competition to American productions, Gaumont experienced the subsequent business reversals of technological change (the advent of sound) and financial depression, and was eventually merged with Franco-Film Aubert in the early 1930s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaumont_Film_Company   (339 words)

  
 Gaumont Palace FC
GAUMONT slumped to a disappointing defeat against a resurgent Saints side after another Jekyll and Hyde performance at Swindon Village.
In heavy rain, Gaumont made a characteristically slow start to the match and fell two goals behind in the first half.
Gaumont Palace progressed to the County Cup third round for the first time after a thrilling cup tie.
www.freewebs.com /gaumontpalacefc/echoreports.htm   (1362 words)

  
 In Iraq, Marine worries about parking ticket
Gaumont may be separated from loved ones by distance, but according to his mother, Jerice Goulet of Saco, it is the unity of his family that helps to sustain him in a foreign land.
Gaumont was involved in track and basketball throughout high school, spending his free time working out at a local gym and tooling around in his red Jeep Wrangler.
Gaumont is presently involved with the peacekeeping security force in Baghdad.
news.mainetoday.com /war/mainersatwar/030421gaumont.shtml   (558 words)

  
 Gaumont Pathé: NFB of Canada Rep Deal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Gaumont Pathé archives and the National Film Board of Canada announce a partnership to represent each other‚s stock shots libraries in their respective markets.
Gaumont Pathe archives is the result of the merge of the film and audiovisual newsreels libraries of Cinematheque Gaumont and Pathe Archives.
This alliance makes of Gaumont Pathe archives the French premiere source of moving images in fl and white and color, consisting of the availability of 13,000 hours of documents produced from 1896 to the present.
www.footage.info /prwire/archive/04.gaumontjun28.htm   (507 words)

  
 ABC Sport - Cycling - Cofidis sack Gaumont after EPO admission
Gaumont was questioned by police after the team's physiotherapist, Bogdan Madejak, was alleged to have been the mastermind behind a drugs distribution network involving some of the team's former and current riders.
On Tuesday Gaumont admitted he had been expecting to be sacked - and he said he would now quit the sport for good.
Gaumont and Madejak were the only employees of the Cofidis team - which also boasts David Millar of Britain, Igor Astarloa of Spain and Australia's Stuart O'Grady - to actually be involved in the affair.
www.abc.net.au /sport/content/s1047926.htm   (510 words)

  
 CNN.com - French cycling doping probe widens - Jan. 22, 2004
Gaumont, who won a bronze medal in the team time trial at the 1992 Games and competed for Cofidis in last year's Tour de France, is suspected of supplying a fellow cyclist with the performance-enhancing drug EPO.
Gaumont and Cofidis teammate Cedric Vasseur were arrested on Tuesday on their way home from training in southern Spain.
Gaumont is suspected of providing EPO to another former teammate, Robert Sassone, who is also under investigation.
cnn.com /2004/SPORT/01/22/cycling.france/index.html   (298 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Other Sport | Cycling | Cyclists 'cheat dope tests'
Gaumont has told the French newspaper Le Monde that he has taken drugs in all but one of his 10 years in the sport.
Gaumont is under investigation by police for possession of drugs in an inquiry into drug-taking in the Cofidis team.
Gaumont also said cyclists use false prescriptions to permit the use of banned cortico-steroids.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/3516584.stm   (468 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Gaumont: A Century of French Cinema: Books: Francois Garcon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This work covers Gaumont's humble beginnings as a producer of films used only to sell the cameras and projectors the company manufactured, all the way to 1994 and the release of the big budget opera film, "Carmen".
Gaumont and Company should be known for many things, but is often overlooked as a footnote in film history.
The founder, Leon Gaumont (1864-1946) was an engineer of equal stature with the Lumiere Brothers, Gustave Eiffel, and Georges Demeney.
www.amazon.com /Gaumont-Century-French-Francois-Garcon/dp/0810925796   (660 words)

  
 Bradford - New Victoria/Gaumont/Odeon History
The Gaumont Ballroom, as it was now known, finally closed on Saturday 30th December 1961 when Bert Bentley and His Orchestra played the last waltz and DJ Dal Stevens brought the evening to an end with the last record Dan Gibson's "Sea of Heartbreak".
The Gaumont in the 50's was the largest indoor concert venue in the north of England and its excellent acoustics made it very easy to work and quickly became the first choice of singers and performers on tour, for example.
The Gaumont was the first cinema in Bradford to be fitted with CinemaScope in 1954 at a cost of over 6,500 GBP with half the cost going into installing the three channel stereophonic sound - Left, centre and right speakers behind the screen.
www.kingsdr.demon.co.uk /cinemas/newvic.htm   (5069 words)

  
 Tuesday's EuroFile: Cofidis trial continues; Saving Jan? McEwen expecting new jersey
Gaumont is cooperating with investigators in trial of 10 Cofidis team riders and staff, who are facing doping charges.
Gaumont shocked the court Tuesday when he said it was the current doctor of the French Cycling Federation (FFC), Armand Megret, who had first injected him with a doping product, in 1994.
Gaumont, who rode with Cofidis from 1997 to 2004, admitted he had won only one race while not taking any kind of products.
www.velonews.com /race/int/articles/11163.0.html   (993 words)

  
 Silver Screens - The Gaumont Champs-Elysées
The Gaumont Champs-Elysées was inaugurated in 1971, with Jacques Tati's "Trafic".
Gaumont was very proud of the projection, and the theater has always been the most expensive in Paris, and still being successful.
The Gaumont Champs-Elysées closed down December 31, 1999, after the 3:30pm show, as the Champs-Elysées was getting ready for the false century celebrations, and the UGC Champs-Elysées became the last single-screen movie theater on the famous avenue.
www.silverscreens.com /gtchamps_en.html   (679 words)

  
 Léon Gaumont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gaumont et Cie, has survived in one form or another to become the world's oldest surviving film company extant.
Initially, Gaumont made films for the picture arcade business such as those operated by the Lumière brothers, but it was under the direction of Alice Guy (Gaumont's secretary - First Woman Film Director), that they began making short films based on narrative scripts.
Léon Gaumont died in 1946 in Sainte-Maxime-sur-Mer, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France and was buried in the Cimetière de Belleville - metro Telegraphe in Paris.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/L%C3%A9on_Gaumont   (546 words)

  
 CNN.com - Gaumont hoping for drug-free sport - Feb. 24, 2004
French rider Philippe Gaumont, sacked by his team Cofidis after being involved in a doping scandal, said he still hopes cycling can clean up its act.
Gaumont and team-mate Cedric Vasseur were held for questioning last month in another doping case involving Cofidis, suggesting that the problem still plagues the sport.
Gaumont, who had earlier suggested that up to 90 percent of riders could be using drugs, added he had "tears in his eyes" when he heard of the death of 1998 Tour de France winner Marco Pantani, aged 34, earlier this month.
edition.cnn.com /2004/SPORT/02/24/cycling.gaumont   (305 words)

  
 More drugs : Gaumont
Gaumont said he was amazed by the quantity of drugs he had to take before time trials.
Gaumont is implying that he was going to be fired if he did not take drugs, by Cofidis.
Gaumont was found to be guilty of steroid abuse in 1997.
www.cyclingforums.com /showthread.php?p=747136   (1091 words)

  
 Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
In 1888 Gaumont married Camille Maillard, who brought as her dowry a piece of land on the rue des Alouettes, near the Buttes Chaumont, the eventual site of the Gaumont studios and of the 'cité Elgé'.
Gaumont recovered from this setback by manufacturing, with engineer L-R. Decaux and Demenÿ, a camera/projector using 60 mm perforated film (1896), followed by a model using 35 mm perforated film (1897).
The first films in the Gaumont catalogue were bought from, among others, Albert Londe, P. Gers and Deslandes.
www.victorian-cinema.net /gaumont.htm   (471 words)

  
 Exeter Memories - The Gaumont Cinema
The Gaumont was their answer to the opening, in 1931, of the Plaza in London Inn Square.
The Gaumont was converted into the Top Rank Bingo and Social Club in 1963, when Tommy Trinder and Westward TV presenter Shelagh Kennedy performed the opening ceremony.
The Gaumont survived the wartime bombing, the decline of the cinema and the move into Bingo.
www.exetermemories.co.uk /EM/Places_and_art/Gaumont.html   (654 words)

  
 How Gaumont got its groove back
Gaumont also recently picked up world rights outside the U.K. to the movie "Cashback," a short film written and directed by fashion photographer-turned-director Sean Ellis and produced by Lene Bausager.
Gaumont still has its share of flops, most recently the adventure picture "The Trail" from Oscar-nominated director Eric Valli ("Himalaya"), which Chorot qualifies as "severe" in terms of its failure.
Gaumont last week announced income for 2005 of €7.2 million ($8.6 million), down from the €9.2 million the prior year, mainly because losses on "The Trail" and another underperformer, "Un ticket pour l'espace" (A Ticket for Space), are incorporated into its 2005 accounts.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002116863   (797 words)

  
 Thursday's EuroFile: Gaumont pegged as central figure in dope case
French police are calling Cofidis rider Philippe Gaumont a central player in the growing doping investigation that's threatening to overwhelm cycling before the start of the 2004 racing season.
According to a report in L'Equipe, Gaumont is said to be one of the suppliers of EPO and other doping products that's the center of an investigation started last week when police questioned two former Cofidis riders -- Marek Rutkiewicz and Robert Sassone - as well as a Cofidis soigneur, Bogdan Madejak.
Gaumont and teammate Cedric Vasseur were taken by police for questioning Tuesday evening as they returned from a team training camp in Spain.
www.velonews.com /race/int/articles/5468.0.html   (737 words)

  
 Most cyclists use drugs: Gaumont - www.theage.com.au
Disgraced French cyclist Philippe Gaumont claimed today that 90 per cent of professional riders had used, or were currently using, performance enhancing drugs.
Gaumont claimed that to be successful the riders came under pressure from the team sponsors to take drugs.
Gaumont, whose Cofidis team-mate and former wearer of the yellow jersey in the Tour de France Cedric Vasseur claimed at the weekend systematic doping was not prevalent in the peloton, said no matter what the sport's authorities tried to combat dope taking the riders had the answer to it.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/01/27/1075087997230.html?from=storyrhs   (427 words)

  
 Léon Gaumont
Léon Gaumont founded the Gaumont manufacturing company in 1895 and went on to become a major innovator in the development of motion picture equipment and, next to Charles Pathé, one of the most powerful, important figures in the development of early French Cinema.
In 1902, Gaumont developed the Chronophone, basically a record player synchronized to the action on screen.
By 1928, Gaumont had engineered a new kind of sound system and it was used to produce the first French sound film Eau de Nil.
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P187969   (198 words)

  
 The gaumont Rosehill
On your birthday you received from the Gaumont a birthday card which included free admission to that weeks Saturday club, I think it may have included a friend.
We could see the Gaumont from our back bedroom window, this was handy when mum was going over there with her friend Mrs Porter usually on a Sunday afternoon as we had to keep watch to see how the queue was going.
The Gaumont opened on Whit Monday, 17th May 1937, the film star John Loder was the principal guest.
www.geocities.com /raycrawley/gaumont.html   (1070 words)

  
 GAM - Gaumont - Google Finance
Gaumont is a France based company engaged in the production and distribution of films, and the running of cinemas in France.
Gaumont also has a 34% shareholding in EuroPalaces, an operator of cinemas in Europe.
Gaumont Video is the video publisher for the Company.
google.com /finance?cid=670214   (195 words)

  
 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.
www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1994/june/Sa11985.htm   (333 words)

  
 DVD Times - Astérix: La Trilogie Gaumont (Asterix: The Gaumont Trilogy)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
For these three films, the only previous releases that could be considered definitive were the French VHS tapes, which preserved the films in widescreen and their original language.
This box set, containing the three films produced at the Gaumont studio, as well as a fourth disc filled with extras, was originally announced with an October 2004 release date.
The subtitles seem to be reproductions of Teletext hard of hearing streams, judging by their placement, colours and significant simplification of the original dialogue.
www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=59718   (2997 words)

  
 Cyclist took, distributed performance drugs - Tour de France - MSNBC.com
Gaumont won a bronze in the team trial at the 1992 Olympics and rode for Cofidis in the 2003 Tour de France.
The lawyer said Gaumont also told investigators that he had given EPO to a fellow rider, who was not identified.
Gaumont was detained with teammate Cedric Vasseur as they returned to Paris from a training session in southern Spain.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4066509   (454 words)

  
 Pathé, Gaumont and Seydoux: Gaumont
The history of the Gaumont group mirrors that of its competitor Pathé, beginning as a gramophone and photographic equipment manufacturer, expanding into film production and exhibition, surviving financial crises in the 1930s, buffetted by nationalisations and corporate raiders before coming to rest in the arms of the Seydoux family.
Léon Gaumont (1864-1946) began as an apprentice instrument maker in the workshop of Jules Carpentier, manufacturer of the Lumière Cinématographe.
In 2001 the Gaumont and Pathé cinema chains were merged as EuroPalaces SA, with some 86 theatres (with 633 screens in France, 96 in the Netherlands, 13 in Switzerland).
www.ketupa.net /pathe1.htm   (663 words)

  
 Cyclists, doctor implicated in Cofidis doping scandal
Gaumont is one of seven team members placed under investigation in France by judge Richard Pallain.
L'Equipe also quotes Gaumont, who was let go by the team in February, as saying that Menuet gave him an injection on the eve of the Tour de France's final stage in 2003.
Gaumont also accused Cofidis' star rider David Millar, who won the Tour de France time trial from Pornac to Nantes on July 26 last year, of doping himself and helping to supply others.
www.cbc.ca /sports/story/2004/04/09/gaumont040409.html   (1408 words)

  
 FOCAL
Gaumont and Pathe, France's two movie industry pioneers, announced today that they plan to combine their movie and television archives in a new company to be called Gaumont-Pathe Archives.
In joining forces, Gaumont and Pathe reaffirm their commitment to promoting and preserving this universal heritage, which offers a unique view into the history of the 20th century.
The archive baseÕs nearly 12,000 hours of footage include Pathe, Gaumont and Eclair newsreels from 1908 to 1979, Sygma archives and the recently acquired Soviet archives from the Arkeion catalog, and numerous documentaries.
www.focalint.org /gaumont_jan04.htm   (501 words)

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