Clément Maurice
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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
Le Duel d'Hamlet or Cyrano de Bergerac
.
With Henri Lioret, he developed the Phono-Cinema-Theater, a pioneering system of sound cinema, presented at the Universal Exhibition of 1900.
Filmography
- Producer
- 1900: Le Duel d'Hamlet
- 1900: Jules Moy (Clément-Maurice Gratioulet)
- 1900: Little Tich et ses Big Boots (Clément-Maurice Gratioulet)
- 1900: Madame Sans-Gêne
- 1900: Mariette Sully (Clément-Maurice Gratioulet)
- 1900: Mily Mayer (Clément-Maurice Gratioulet)
- Director
- 1900: Le Duel d'Hamlet
- 1900: Madame Sans-Gêne
- 1900: Roméo et Juliette
- 1900: Cyrano de Bergerac
- 1911: L'Inutile Sacrifice
- Chief camera operator
- 1899: Excursion automobile Paris-Meulan produced by l'Association frères Lumière, opérateur
- 1912: La Dame aux camélias
References
- ISBN 978-0-415-23440-5.
External links
- Clément Maurice at IMDb
- Cyrano de Bergerac short film by Maurice Archived 23 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine