Léon Gaumont [SEP] place of death
-Film-Aubert (GFFA). Four years later, a scandal erupted following the collapse of the Banque Nationale de Crédit and GFFA was forced to file for bankruptcy protection.
Death and legacy.
Léon Gaumont died in 1946 in Sainte-Maxime, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France, and was buried in the in Paris. In 1995, on the 100th anniversary of French film, a commemorative 100 Franc coin was issued with Léon Gaumont's image.
The "Etablissements Gaumont" was founded in 1906 to handle film production and distribution plus to build a chain of movie theaters including the giant Gaumont Palace (Place Clichy - former "Hippodrome) in Paris (largest in the world at the time). By 1910 Léon Gaumont had improved his synchronous sound invention to the point where he was able to provide enough volume for up to 4000 people in a theater. In 1912, Gaumont developed a color process for film.
One of the two dominant forces in film in all