The Charles Pathé-Babies

Name: The Charles Pathé-Babies
Director: Pierre Levie
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1986-01-01
Duration: 12 min

198612m

★ 0.0

Documentary

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.

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