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French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry.
Léon Ernest Gaumont, born Semblancay/Indre & Loire was gifted with a mechanical mind which led him to employment manufacturing precision instruments. However, he had always been fascinated by the technique of photography, as far back as early childhood. So, when he was offered a job at the Comptoir géneral de photographie in 1893, he jumped at the opportunity. His decision proved fortunate when two years later he was given the chance to acquire the business. In August of 1895, he partnered with the astronomer Joseph Vallot, the famous engineer Gustave Eiffel, and the financier Alfred Besnier to make the purchase. Their business entity, called L. Gaumont et Cie, has survived to become the world's oldest surviving film company extant. The company logo was the distinctive "Marguerite" (named after his mother), a type of flower similar to the daisy. The company had extensive studios (La Cite l'Elge) in the Buttes Chaumont District of Paris, and a smaller operation in Nice, France. Léon Gaumont filed more than thirty patents.
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variant spelling:
GAUMONT, Léon Ernest
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Curriculum vitae
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* 10.05.1864
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Paris
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born
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1895
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Fabrication des appareils de projection, de caméras, caméra réversible.
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1895
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Commercialisation du chronophotographe de Georges Demenÿ.
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1895
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Développement de production de films, réseau de salles et de distribution.
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1895
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Création de sa société française de production Gaumont sous le nom de L. Gaumont.
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1902
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Dépôt d'un brevet pour un « Appareil photographique réductible dénommé Block-Notes »
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29.01.1907
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Dépôt du brevet N° CA 103324 : Appareil pour faire marcher des phonographes et des cinématographes d'une manière synchronique.
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23.07.1907
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Dépôt du brevet N°CA 106515 : Mécanisme synchronique pour cinématographes et phonographes.
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1934
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Liquidation de sa société reprise en 1938.
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1938
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Reprise de sa société sous le nom de Société nouvelle des établissements Gaumont.
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† 09.08.1946
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died
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