Cine-concert: Gaumont restoré – French Morning

Before Gaumont, the movie giant, there was Leon Gaumont, the founder of the company, engineer and pioneer of cinema in the early twentieth century.

This "cinema-concert" session presents The Black X, a 1916 film, a parody of Fantomas, fully restored. The 40-minute film deploys all the know-how of Leon Gaumont, particularly in terms of lighting and framing.

Before The Black X, four short films showing animals will be broadcast: Bird training (1910, 4 minutes); The Sausage Race (Alice Guy Blache, 1907, 5 minutes); Onésime loves animals (Jean Durand, 1913, 6 minutes); and The little Chantecler (Emile Cohl, 1910, 8 minutes).

The works will be shown accompanied on the piano by Andrew Simpson.

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