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- Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (/ meɪˈljɛs /; French: [meljɛs]; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French magician, actor, and film director. He led many technical and narrative developments in the early days of cinema, primarily in the fantasy and science fiction genres.
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Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (/ meɪˈljɛs /; [1] French: [meljɛs]; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French magician, actor, and film director. He led many technical and narrative developments in the early days of cinema, primarily in the fantasy and science fiction genres.
Charles Morand Pathé (French:; 26 December 1863 – 25 December 1957) [1] [2] was a pioneer of the French film and recording industries. As the founder of Pathé Frères, its roots lie in 1896 Paris, France, when Pathé and his brothers pioneered the development of the moving image.
6 days ago · Georges Melies, early French experimenter with motion pictures, the first to film fictional narratives. Among his landmark films are Le Voyage dans la lune (1902; A Trip to the Moon) and Le Voyage a travers l’impossible (1904; The Voyage Across the Impossible).
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- Georges Méliès is famous for his many innovations in motion pictures. He was one of the first to film fictional narratives, and he is regarded as t...
- Georges Méliès’s most famous film is Le Voyage dans la lune (1902; A Trip to the Moon). The film is a very loose adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel...
- Georges Méliès began his career as a magician. After seeing the Lumière brothers’ films in 1895, he became a filmmaker and made over 500 short film...
Georges Méliès was a French illusionist and film director famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.
Oct 3, 2014 · After making more than 40 films that year, mostly scenes of everyday French life, but also the first newsreel (footage of the French Photographic Society conference) and the first...
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Charles Pathé (born Dec. 25, 1863, Paris—died Dec. 26, 1957, Monte-Carlo) was a French pioneer motion-picture executive who controlled a vast network of production and distribution facilities that dominated the world film market during the first years of the 20th century.
Lumiere brothers, French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the Cinematographe (‘cinema’ is derived from this name). They introduced projectable film and made the first movie, first newsreel, and first documentary.
