This story ran last week (thanks, Sr Helena for posting the link on Facebook!) and the history is most interesting. Alice Guy’s story is part one of a DVD series on French film history.
By DAVE KEHR
Published: August 27, 2009
ALICE GUY was 22 in March 1895 when she took a job in Paris as a secretary to Léon Gaumont, an executive of the Comptoir Général de Photographie, specializing in photographic equipment. A few months later Gaumont bought the company, renamed it after himself, and began developing a product called the Chronophotographe.
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