Clément Maurice
1853 - 1933En 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.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Clément Maurice
Benoit Constant Coquelin
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.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Le duel d'Hamlet
Clément Maurice
Sarah Bernhardt, Pierre Magnier
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
Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre
Marguerite Vrignault, Émile Reynaud
Cléo de Mérode, Benoit Constant Coquelin
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).
Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre
L'inutile sacrifice
Clément Maurice
Hubert Noël
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.
L'inutile sacrifice
