Charles Pathé

Charles Pathé

Charles Morand Pathé (26 December 1863 – 25 December 1957) was a pioneer of the French film and recording industries. As the founder of Pathé Frères, its roots lie in 1896 Paris, France, when Pathé and his brothers pioneered the development of the moving image. Pathé adopted the national emblem of France, the cockerel, as the trademark for his company. After the company, now called Compagnie Générale des Éstablissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes, invented the cinema newsreel with Pathé-Journal. The son of a butcher shop owner, Charles Morand Pathé was born at Chevry-Cossigny, in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. His father, Jacques Pathé and mother, Thérèse-Émélie Kech were butchers by trade, and ran a delicatessen first in Chevry-Cossigny, and later in Vincennes. Charles had three brothers and two sisters. Pathé left school at 14 to work as an apprentice butcher, at rue de Charenton, Paris. After military service, in 1889, at 25, he began working as a meat merchant but soon took his savings, and with the help of his brothers and his sister, embarked for Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the aim of setting up in business. Pathé tried to establish himself in various trades including a laundry service based on industrial washing machines that turned out to be unsuccessful. His life was unsettled and Pathé was forced to change jobs frequently. After a final failure of trying to deal in exotic parrots, when he and his business partner were stricken with yellow fever, Pathé returned to France in poor health. At age 30, Pathé married lle Foy in Paris, and worked as a clerk, drawing a meager salary. Back in Vincennes, in August 1894, Pathé saw the phonograph invented by Thomas Edison, demonstrated at the town fair. He immediately embraced the sound recording technology, purchasing examples of Edison machines to resell. In 1896, with his brothers Émile, Théophile and Jacques, Pathé founded Société Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers) in Paris, a company that manufactured and sold phonographs and phonograph cylinders, with Émile Pathé at his head. While in London, Pathé saw the Edison Kinetoscope and decided to expand the Pathé company's business to distributing cinema projection equipment, and with the acquisition of Eastman Kodak patent rights in Europe, a licence for film stock in theatres throughout France. Pathé films were rented out, for a maximum of four months, a more lucrative business than selling the product. A modest first factory had been installed in 1896 at Vincennes. The first films of the Société Pathé Frères such as Le Passage à niveau à Joinville le Pont and L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de Bel-Air were produced, under Pathé's guidance. For several years, however, the success of the phonograph business underwrote the success of the cinema company. ... Source: Article "Charles Pathé" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Popularity : 0.328
  • Known For : Production
  • Birthday : 1863-12-26
  • Place of Birth : Chevry-Cossigny, Seine-et-Marne, France
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Charles Pathé Movies

  • 1979
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    Cinematógrafo 1900

    Cinematógrafo 1900

    4.5 1979 HD

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  • 2014
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    El hombre que quiso ser Segundo

    El hombre que quiso ser Segundo

    6 2014 HD

    The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

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  • 1948
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    Paris Nineteen Hundred

    Paris Nineteen Hundred

    5.3 1948 HD

    Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured...

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  • 1923
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    Autour de la roue

    Autour de la roue

    7 1923 HD

    Blaise Cendrars' AUTOUR DE LA ROUE (1923), a behind-the-scenes short documenting the production.

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  • 1910
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    Max's First Job

    Max's First Job

    5.1 1910 HD

    Recommended by a friend of the Ambigu Theatre, Max is summoned to Joinville studios. His first role is that of a husband who comes home late.

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  • 1915
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    Those of Our Land

    Those of Our Land

    6 1915 HD

    With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to...

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  • 1904
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    Barnum's Trunk

    Barnum's Trunk

    5.375 1904 HD

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  • 1911
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    Jael and Sisera

    Jael and Sisera

    1 1911 HD

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  • 1913
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    The King of Prison

    The King of Prison

    1 1913 HD

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  • 1910
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    Glimpses of Bird Life

    Glimpses of Bird Life

    1 1910 HD

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  • 1897
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    Métamorphoses d'un magicien

    Métamorphoses d'un magicien

    1 1897 HD

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  • 1912
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    Cinderella or The Glass Slipper

    Cinderella or The Glass Slipper

    5.5 1912 HD

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  • 1910
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    Spirochoeta pallida (de la syphilis)

    Spirochoeta pallida (de la syphilis)

    1 1910 HD

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  • 1911
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    The Carrot Caterpillar

    The Carrot Caterpillar

    4 1911 HD

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  • 1910
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    The Mysterious Man

    The Mysterious Man

    4 1910 HD

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  • 1910
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    Sports in the Indian Army

    Sports in the Indian Army

    1 1910 HD

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  • 1910
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    Ruins of Delhi

    Ruins of Delhi

    1 1910 HD

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  • 1912
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    The Conquest of the Pole

    The Conquest of the Pole

    6.3 1912 HD

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  • 1919
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    J'accuse

    J'accuse

    7.418 1919 HD

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  • 1896
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    Arrivée d'un train

    Arrivée d'un train

    5.5 1896 HD

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  • 1909
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    Fishing for Crocodiles

    Fishing for Crocodiles

    1 1909 HD

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  • 1923
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    La Roue

    La Roue

    7.2 1923 HD

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  • 1899
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    Brûleuses d'herbes

    Brûleuses d'herbes

    2 1899 HD

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  • 1910
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    Suffragette Demonstration in London (June 1910)

    Suffragette Demonstration in London (June 1910)

    1 1910 HD

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  • 1910
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    Mass Meeting of Suffragettes

    Mass Meeting of Suffragettes

    1 1910 HD

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  • 1914
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    The Banks of the Thames from Oxford to Windsor

    The Banks of the Thames from Oxford to Windsor

    1 1914 HD

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  • 1896
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    Voyage dans un train

    Voyage dans un train

    1 1896 HD

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  • 1917
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    The Hidden Hand

    The Hidden Hand

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1909
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    Spanish Clair de Lune

    Spanish Clair de Lune

    5.7 1909 HD

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  • 1978
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    Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

    Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

    1 1978 HD

    Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of...

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