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Gaumont’s Treasures Initiative Highlights the Company’s Restoration Program and Preserves Its History Over 130 Years
The Gaumont’s Treasures Initiative Highlights the Company’s Restoration Program and Preserves Its History Over 130 Years.
Of course, given Gaumont’s status as the world’s oldest film house, this year’s retrospective only scratches the surface of a library that quite neatly tracks the full history of cinema. From 1896 to 1929, the company produced nearly 7,000 narrative shorts, and despite the losses to deterioration, the studio has nevertheless been able to preserve about half those titles — making for one of the most expansive records of the silent movie era. Alongside these works, Gaumont’s collection also includes roughly 15,000 hours of restored newsreel footage, a unique visual record of the early 20th century that is in constant demand by news outlets and documentary filmmakers.
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