What if the boom in the cinema got its impulse in Paris? This pioneer company celebrates its 130th anniversary!

From the first reversible camera to the first shooting studio

In 2025, Gaumont Company about the famous 130-year-old movie theater and emotions … but also innovations! The adventure began in 1895, thanks to the bold and innovative vision of Leon Unmar. Let’s reprimand …

In 1895, at the age of 31, Leon Unauthor took over the general Comptoir de Photography, a company that specializes in the production and sale of optical and photographic equipment. With the collective emulation of photography and cinema inspired by the technical advances of Edison and Lummer’s brothers, he firmly believes in the future of cinematography (the first machine that allows the films to be designed by Lumière Brothers). In 1896 he published a chronophotographer or “Kronos Demen” (on behalf of his inventor): a reversible camera that allows both filming and very short film projection.

The real touch of everyone and the perfectionist, Leon Unauthor is working on several main technical news, including the chronophone, and the color of the chronochrome.

In 1905, the Unmarrisa built a cinematic footage studio, which especially serves to make the first sound films, thanks to the chronophone, which are predicted. Later, in the 1930s, the unmarried participated in the sound film revolution with the Gaumont-Petersen-Poulsen system. The process is a 35mm film recording and diffusion sync with a 35mm film projector, designing pictures.

As early as 1928, Unmarris still managed to present the first voice feature in the history of cinema: the Nile water, by Marcel Vandal.

Understanding and the beginning of modern marketing

Since the late 19th century, Leon Unauthor has been deprived of the importance of distribution in the still discerning sector. For the first legal reasons, she puts Marguerite from her mother’s first name to her mother – this has become one of the first to create a well -known logo in the history of cinema. At a time when studios remain anonymous to the general public, this gesture is innovative.

Gaumont will quickly develop a real advertising strategy. Posters, illustrated programs, catalogs, advertising forecasts: All means are mobilized to improve home films, even the company has its own printing.

By producing, popularization, distribution, distribution, spread and operation in the same structure, the Gaumont institutions use an innovative integrated model and participates in a revolution that takes place in the history of the French film industry.

From a dark room to a stream of platform

As early as 1908, before the forain – or Miterant Cinema – begins to fall, the unexpected got involved in public broadcasting. The company then inaugurates its first Parisian room, Gaumont Chronophone, 2ᵉ Arrondissement. Then, two years later, in 1910, “Gaumont News”, ancestors of TV news: Short news that are predicted every week, directly born and directly integrated into movie programs that report and maintain viewers.

In 1910, Leon Basonti bought Hippodrome of Place Clichy and transformed it into a monumental cinema: Le Gaumont-Palace, which took place a year later. For some time, it has become the world’s largest cinema, which has 6,000 seats. Gradually, the company develops a network of rooms throughout France.

Leon Unaunt drove in 1930 before the cinema came, and the first mutation saw his company Gaumont Franco film Aubert (GFFA). In 1938 GFFA became a new company of Gaumont institutions (SNEG).

At the head of the company, the arrival of Nicholas Seidux in 1975 marks the decisive reversal point. The latter reinforces the company’s orientation for CO products, television and international markets. Its general manager, Daniel Tuscan Du Planner, in this logic begins with ambitious European production policy, combining great popularity and more avant -garde works.

Then, the 2000s celebrate the entry into the digital era: Gaumont’s video was created in 2003 to correct its DVDs of its Catalogs, followed by the birth of the GAUMont Pathémathèque Gaumont and the Pathés groups.

Since 2015, the company has been interested in streams and has been working with Mileu’s largest actors, such as Narcos (Netflix), El Presidente (Prime Video), Stillwater (Appletv+), Carl Lagerfeld (Disney+)

Before offering your own platform in 2022: Classic Gaumont. Rich in more than 200 black and white films from its catalog – about 1920 in 1960 – this new platform brings novelty to the slightly saturated svod market. Most of his films are essential and not found elsewhere in the stream or very little on TV.

Consequently, the unmarried stopped celebrating the history of cinema in France and internationally. The pioneer of technical, visual innovations in his advertising strategies and the main actor of spreading the cinema to the general public, the company has been able to expect changes in the art of the permanent evolution of 130 years.

Today, through the actions of its restoration, conservation, and distribution, Gaumont depicts much more than a simple society: it is the living memory of the seventh art, but also creative power in motion, to the future.