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Léon Ernest Gaumont ( French: [ɡomɔ̃]; 10 May 1864 – 10 August 1946) was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry. He founded the world's oldest operating film studio, Gaumont Film Company, and worked in partnership with Solax Studios .
In 1895, when 31-year-old Léon Gaumont took the reins of the Comptoir Général de la Photographie, he never would have suspected that he was going to create the only company in the world that is now as old as cinema itself. The company then sold optical and photographic equipment.
Léon Gaumont est un inventeur et industriel français, né le 10 mai 1864 à Paris et mort le 9 août 1946 à Sainte-Maxime, pionnier de l'industrie mondiale du cinéma et fondateur de la société Gaumont.
Léon Gaumont. film producer. Learn about this topic in these articles: role in motion-picture history. In history of film: Early growth of the film industry. …Pictures, founded by the engineer-inventor Léon Gaumont in 1895.
Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the oldest extant film company in the world, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896), Titanus (1904), Nordisk Film (1906), Universal, Paramount, and Nikkatsu (all founded in 1912).
French producer. Léon Gaumont, modestly born but mechanically minded, was fascinated by photography. The seventeen-year-old's notebook contains advanced ideas on filming and on successive projection.
LÉON. GAUMONT. Born in Paris in 1864, his father a coachman and his mother a housekeeper, Léon Gaumont was a bright student of the Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris. Finishing top of his class in the sciences, Gaumont thought he could go to an engineering school.
