Gaumont (company)

upright=1.35|thumb|A Spido reportage at the Fotomuseum Antwerp left|thumb|Léon Gaumont, founder of the group and important inventor in the field of cinema alt=Alice Guy in 1896|left|thumb|Alice Guy, first woman film director, launched by Léon Gaumont and later head of production at Gaumont. Gaumont SA () is a French film and television production and distribution company headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the second film studio after The Black Maria and the oldest extant film company in the world, establis

French businessman (1864–1946)

film producer and distributor

The Gaumont-British Picture Corporation was a British company that produced and distributed films and operated a cinema chain in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1898 as an offshoot of France's Gaumont. In 1941 it became part of The Rank Organisation and was merged into The Rank Organisation in 1962.

cinema chain owned by Pathé