biography
| name: |
Gaumont, Léon Ernest
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pronunciation:
[gohmõ], Eng [gohm
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1864–1946)
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| biography:
| Cinema inventor, manufacturer, and producer, born in Paris, France. He synchronized a projected film with a phonograph in 1901, and was responsible for the first talking pictures, demonstrated at Paris in 1910. He also introduced an early form of coloured cinematography in 1912. |
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