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The Charles Pathé-Babies (1986)
Directed by Pierre Levie
Documentary · 12m
The 13th short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. The Pathé-Baby, or ‘cinema at home’, the precursor to home cinema, was launched in 1922 and made it possible to watch comedy stars such as Max Linder, Laurel and Hardy, and Felix the Cat, as well as ‘big films’ such as Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Abel Gance's Napoléon, at home.
Crew
- Director
- Pierre Levie
- Writer
- Pierre Levie
- Editor
- Rosanne Van Haesebrouck
Details
- Original title
- Les Babies Charles Pathé
- Release date
- 1986-01-01
- Runtime
- 12m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- Belgium
- Production
- SODEP