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4 days ago · Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour, Universal is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States and the fifth oldest in the world after Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus, and Nordisk Film, and is one of the "Big Five ...
4 days ago · Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker is presented at The American French Film Festival with a program of films attributed to Alice Guy, recently restored by Gaumont.
1 day ago · Michaël Gabrion, producer at Gaumont Film Company, a French production and distribution company for feature films, television series, and animation programmes founded in 1895.
1 day ago · Under the terms of the agreement, Ellison's Skydance will merge with Paramount in an all-stock transaction that values Skydance at $4.75 billion, creating a company with an enterprise value of $28 billion. "Investors will also be hoping that Skydance can bring some new sparkle to the broader Paramount group, given how its share price ...
4 days ago · In the Kingdom of Mongolia, a young officer called Roundghito saves Zemgali, a captive princess, from the lusty designs of the Great Kahn, and runs away
4 days ago · History of film - Pre-WWII, Sound, Era: The idea of combining film and sound had been around since the invention of the cinema itself: Thomas Edison had commissioned the Kinetograph to provide visual images for his phonograph, and William Dickson had actually synchronized the two machines in a device briefly marketed in the 1890s as the ...
4 days ago · At their peak, the B-film studios produced 40–50 movies per year and provided a training ground for such stars as John Wayne. The films were made as quickly as possible, and directors functioned as their own producers, with complete authority over their projects’ minuscule budgets.
