Clément Maurice

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Cyrano de Bergerac (1900)

Clément Maurice (March 22, 1853 – July 15, 1933) was a French photographer, film director, and producer.[1]

Career

First employed in the Lumière factories, where he entered in 1894, he became a portrait photographer in Paris, where he settled in

Antoine Lumière's studio at 8 boulevard des Italiens, above the Robert-Houdin Theater, property of the future filmmaker Georges Méliès
. This and that allow him to enter the world of cinematography.

From 1898 to 1906, he was the cameraman for surgeon

Charles Jourjon
(1876 - 1934) the Éclair Laboratories.

In 1899, the production company Association frères Lumière hired him as a cinematographer collaborator and technician for the shooting of the film Excursion automobile Paris-Meulan. Quickly, he started producing and directing feature films such as

.

With Henri Lioret, he developed the Phono-Cinema-Theater, a pioneering system of sound cinema, presented at the Universal Exhibition of 1900.

Filmography

Producer
Director
Chief camera operator

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