Gaumont, Léon

Region: France    Period: 1890–1930    Occupation: Instrument maker   Tag: Gaumont Léon Ernest Gaumont
* 10 May 1864, Paris, France   † 1 January 1946, Saint-Maxime, France

Léon Gaumont is today primarily remembered as a pioneer of the film industry. Together with Charles Pathé, Gaumont belonged to the leading figures and companies of the pre-Second World War film industry.

In 1895 Gaumont acquired the Comptoir Général de Photographie and became the distributor of the Photo-Jumelles cameras designed by Jules Carpentier. Gaumont also designed and manufactured the Stéréo-Block-Note and Stéréospidocameras. The robust tray-based Stéréodrome stereoscope served as a counterpart to Jules Richard’s Taxiphote.

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Richard, Jules  Stéréodrome  Taxiphote  Tray-based stereoscope