Clément Maurice

Nascimento : 1853-03-22, Aiguillon

Morte : 1933-07-15

História

D'abord employé des usines Lumière, où il entre en 1894, il devient photographe portraitiste à Paris, où il s'installe dans l'atelier d'Antoine Lumière au 8 boulevard des Italiens, ce qui lui permet d'entrer dans le milieu du cinématographe. En 1899, la société de production Association frères Lumière l'embauche comme collaborateur et technicien cinématographe pour le tournage du film Excursion automobile Paris-Meulan. Rapidement, il se lance dans la production et la réalisation de films de long métrage comme Le Duel d'Hamlet ou Cyrano de Bergerac. Avec Henri Lioret, il développe le Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre, système pionnier du cinéma sonore, présenté lors de l'Exposition universelle de 1900.

Filmes

Queen Elizabeth
Director of Photography
Epsodes from the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603), focusing on her ill-fated love affair with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.
L'inutile sacrifice
Director
The photoplay has for theme the fickleness of Pierre, the village "Beau Brummel" of a pretty little French town. He makes love to Blanche, who promises to be his bride. Her friend, Mariette, coquettes with Pierre, and wins his affections, falling in love herself, at the same time. The jealousy which develops between the two girls, and the weakness of Pierre in deserting his fiancée are depicted in a most enthralling manner.
Séparation des soeurs siamoises Radika et Dodika par le docteur Doyen
Director
Little Tich and His Funny Feet
Producer
"This funny individual will make you laugh until your sides ache. He is funny in all his actions, yet when he puts on his shoes you can imagine the noise he can make when he dances an ordinary clog. The shoes referred to are made of some elastic material which enables Little Tich to bow almost to the floor without bending his legs, the spring in the shoes carrying him down and up again. He places his hat on the floor and, leaning over on the toes of his wonderful shoes, dips his head into the hat and comes up without having to move from the spot or to bend his legs. He is a comical looking sight at best, being made up to suit the part, and he will make you laugh whether you want to or not."
Mariette Sully
Producer
This short film, along with other experimental sound films, is thought to have been recorded for the Paris 'Exposition Universelle' of 1900.
Romeo and Juliet
Director
Only 15 seconds remain of this lost short about the famous garden scene in Romeo and Juliet
Jules Moy
Producer
A performance with sound from comedian Jules Moy.
Le duel d'Hamlet
Producer
The movie consists solely of a saber fight. Bernhardt plays a cross-gender Hamlet, and Pierre Magnier is her fellow duelist, Laertes. A few bystanders, in Rennaissance dress, stand off to the right of the screen, and in the background, next to a painted backdrop.
Le duel d'Hamlet
Director
The movie consists solely of a saber fight. Bernhardt plays a cross-gender Hamlet, and Pierre Magnier is her fellow duelist, Laertes. A few bystanders, in Rennaissance dress, stand off to the right of the screen, and in the background, next to a painted backdrop.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Director
Considered the first motion picture to employ both color and sound, the only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand's famous play performing a scene from his most famous role. It is accompanied by a sound-on-cylinder recording of Coquelin's voice reciting one of Cyrano's speeches.
Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre
Director
The Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre was a special pavilion at the 1900 Paris World's Fair which featured filmed performances presented with sound via wax cylinder recordings. Many of these short films were also presented in hand-tinted color. The performances ranged from theatre (Coquelin the eldest, Gabrielle Réjane, Sarah Bernhardt, Félicia Mallet), opera & operetta (Mariette Sully, Emile Cossira, Jeanne Hatto, Mily-Meyer, Désiré Pougaud), to café concert & music hall variety (Footit et Chocolat, Mason and Forbes, Little Tich, Brunin, Polin, Jules Moy) and dance (Blanche and Louise Mante from the Paris Opera, Carlotta Zambelli, Michel Vasquez, Rosita Mauri, Jeanne Chasles, Achille Viscusi, Christine Kerf, Cléo de Mérode).
Voitures automobiles
Director
Motor cars of different models, drivers, passengers and observers, all filmed from the starting line of the Paris-Meulan race.
Hamlet [Scène de Yorick]
Director
Œdipe
Director