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Pathé frères (France)

LC control no.n 85183876
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Corporate name headingPathé frères (France)
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Variant(s)Pathé frères de Paris
Ets Pathé frères (France)
Etablissements Pathé frères (France)
Pathé (Firm : France)
Pate (Firm : France)
Bratʹi︠a︡ Pate v Parizhi︠e︡
Compagnie générale des établissements Pathé frères
Société générale de cinématographes, phonographes et pellicules (France)
Compagnie générale de phonographes, cinématographes et appareils de précision (France)
Br. Patė (Firm : France)
Firma "Br. Patė" (France)
Établissements Pathé-Cinéma
See alsoPathé cinéma (France)
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Pathé Frères Cinema Ltd.
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Beginning date1896
Ending date1918~
Associated countryFrance
Field of activityMotion picture production Motion picture distribution Sound--Recording and reproducing
Found inAn African village--North Africa [MP] 190-?: credits (Pathé frères)
Au pays noir, 2002: t.p. (Pathé) p. 23 (Pathé frères)
LC data base, 5/9/88 (hdg.: Pathé frères)
Pathé-Natan, la véritable histoire, 2004: t.p. (Pathé-Natan) p. 18 (Ets Pathé frères; Société générale de cinématographes, phonographes et pellicules, founded in 1897 [no pubs. in LC]; took the name Compagnie générale de phonographes, cinématographes et appareils de précision in 1900, and Compagnie générale des établissements Pathé frères in 1912) p. 20 (in 1918 the phonograph branch was eliminated; Société Pathé frères became Pathé cinéma) p. 21 (in 1920 Charles Pathé sold his studios and production equipment to a new company that would be called Pathé consortium cinéma; many at the time and modern historian has considered this an affiliate of Pathé cinéma, but it was not) p. 25 (in 1927 Pathé consortium gave up the name "Pathé" and became Paris consortium cinéma; it was bought by Bernard Natan in 1929)
Polnyĭ katalog dvustoronnikh plastinok razmi︠e︡rom v 28 santim., 1911: t.p. (Pathé frères de Paris, Bratʹi︠a︡ Paté [sic] v Parizhi︠e︡) captions throughout (Pate)
Pathé, 1994: p. 425 (Pathé frères merged 1929 with Rapid-Film to form Pathé cinéma)
Beginnings, 2007: credits (proizvodstvo firmy "Br. Patė")
Établissements Pathé-Cinéma. Le film vierge Pathé, 1926: title page (édité par les Établissements Pathé-Cinéma)
Wikipedia WWW site (France), viewed September 15, 2023 (Pathé, the company, whose name is associated with the history of cinema, was originally founded in 1896 in France by the Pathé brothers, Charles and Émile; in 1918, the Pathé brothers became convinced of the supremacy of the American film industry and decided to sell the different branches of their trust under the best conditions: the cinematographic branch became Société Pathé Cinéma (aka Pathé Cinéma) and was run exclusively by Charles Pathé)
Traces of France WWW site viewed February 21, 2024 History of British Pathé (In 1910 Compagnie Générale des Etablissements Pathé Frères opened a newsreel production office on Wardour Street in London)
The Film Project WWW site viewed February 20, 2024 (Pathé Frères Cinema, Ltd., 84 Wardour Street W, London)
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