Biography
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. ...
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Filmography
all 50
Movies 49
Producer 36
self 7
Director 6
TV Shows 1
Writer 1
Charles Pathé et Léon Gaumont premiers géants du cinéma (2016)
El hombre que quiso ser Segundo (2014)
Cinematógrafo 1900 (1979)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978)
Paris Nineteen Hundred (1948)
Autour de la roue (1923)
La Roue (1923)
J'accuse (1919)
The Hidden Hand (1917)
The Banks of the Thames from Oxford to Windsor (1914)
The Voyage of M. Bourrichon (1913)
The King of Prison (1913)
Cinderella or The Glass Slipper (1912)
The Conquest of the Pole (1912)
Jael and Sisera (1911)
The Carrot Caterpillar (1911)
Sports in the Indian Army (1910)
Max's First Job (1910)
The Chillouks, a Central African Tribe (1910)
How the Poor Eat in Paris (1910)
Spirochoeta pallida (de la syphilis) (1910)
Glimpses of Bird Life (1910)
Wolf Hunting in Russia (1910)
Ruins of Delhi (1910)
Rice Industry in Japan (1910)
The Mysterious Man (1910)
Peking and Its Surroundings (1910)
Mass Meeting of Suffragettes (1910)
Suffragette Demonstration in London (June 1910) (1910)
Une grande chasse à l'hippopotame sur le Haut Nil (1910)
Spanish Clair de Lune (1909)
Secret Suitcase (1908)
The Dog and His Various Merits (1908)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1907)
Métempsycose (1907)
First Prize in Cello (1907)
Revolution in Russia (1906)
A Dreadful Night (1905)
Barnum's Trunk (1904)
The Nest Robbers (1904)
What Is Seen Through a Keyhole (1901)
Le singe voltigeur (1899)
Poursuite de cambrioleurs sur les toits (1898)
The Skaters (1898)
Métamorphoses d'un magicien (1897)
Rue Royale: Église de la Madeleine (1897)
Arrivée d'un train (1896)
Voyage dans un train (1896)
Arrivée du Tzar à Paris (1896)
Débarquement (1896)
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GenderMale
Birthday1863-12-26
Deathday1957-12-25 (93 years old)
Birth PlaceChevry-Cossigny, France
ChildrenPierre-Charles Pathé
SiblingsÉmile Pathé
CitizenshipsFrance
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