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2. filmsbytheyear.com › the-year-1904-in-filmThe Year 1904 in Film: A Watershed Year

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   Jun 29, 2024 · Gaumont British Picture Corporation released Bombardment of Port Arthur on May 28. Most likely this is also a reenactment filmed with British Navy ships.

3. www.british-history.ac.uk › vch › essexSocial and cultural institutions | British History Online

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   4 days ago · The Vaudeville Electric theatre in Mersea Road, opened by David Ager in 1911, was the town's first purpose-built cinema. The Gaumont British Picture Corporation acquired it in 1927 and renamed it the Empire. In 1959 it closed and the building was used as a warehouse; it was demolished in 1971.

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alfred_HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · Signature. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. [1] In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, [a] many of which are still widely watched and studied today.

5. www.britannica.com › art › history-of-the-motionHistory of film - Melies, Porter, Cinematography | Britannica

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   4 days ago · Pathé and Gaumont dominated pre-World War I motion-picture production, exhibition, and sales in Europe, and they effectively brought to an end the artisanal mode of filmmaking practiced by Méliès and his British contemporaries.

6. libguides.lmu.edu › cPrimary Sources - Communication Studies - LibGuides at Loyola ...

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   Jun 18, 2024 · Primary sources are original documents created or experienced concurrently with the event being researched. Secondary sources are works that analyze, assess, or interpret a historical event, an era, or a phenomenon. Secondary sources generally use primary sources.

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7. www.britannica.com › art › history-of-the-motionHistory of film - Hollywood Studio System | Britannica

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   4 days ago · Fox went even farther, building the multimillion-dollar Movietone City in Westwood, California, in 1928 and acquiring controlling shares of both Loew’s, Inc., the parent corporation of MGM, and Gaumont British, England’s largest producer-distributor-exhibitor.

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   Where did Pathé & Gaumont make film?

   • From 1905 to 1914 its studios at La Villette, France, were the largest in the world. Pathé and Gaumont dominated pre-World War I motion-picture production, exhibition, and sales in Europe, and they effectively brought to an end the artisanal mode of filmmaking practiced by Méliès and his British contemporaries.

   History of film - Melies, Porter, Cinematography | Britannica

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   How did Gaumont become more popular than Pathé?

   • Though never more than one-fourth the size of Pathé, Gaumont followed the same pattern of expansion, manufacturing its own equipment and mass-producing films under a supervising director (through 1906, Alice Guy, the cinema’s first female director; afterward, Louis Feuillade). Like Pathé, Gaumont opened foreign offices and acquired theatre chains.

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   Did Fox buy Loew's & Gaumont?

   • Fox went even farther, building the multimillion-dollar Movietone City in Westwood, California, in 1928 and acquiring controlling shares of both Loew’s, Inc., the parent corporation of MGM, and Gaumont British, England’s largest producer-distributor-exhibitor.

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   Why is Paramount considered the most European Film Studio?

   • Paramount, with its legions of UFA-trained directors, art directors, and cameramen, was thought to be the most “European” of the studios. It produced the most sophisticated and visually baroque films of the era. Conditioned by its recent experience as a struggling minor studio, Warner Brothers was the most cost-conscious of the major companies.

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9. www.watfordobserver.co.uk › leisure › 24387472Rolling Stones pictured performing in Watford 60 years ago

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   Jun 14, 2024 · Last week, we shared a picture of the Rolling Stones that was taken by a Watford Observer photographer on October 6, 1964 – the date when the group performed at the Gaumont for one of the last gigs of their fourth British tour.