Clément Maurice

Clément Maurice (March 22, 1853 – July 15, 1933) was a French photographer, film director, and producer.

Career First employed in the Lumière factories, where he entered in 1894, he became a portrait photographer in Paris, where he settled in Antoine Lumière's studio at 8 boulevard des Italiens, above the Robert-Houdin Theater, property of the future filmmaker Georges Méliès. This and that allow him to enter the world of cinematography.

From 1898 to 1906, he was the cameraman for surgeon Eugène Doyen for whom he filmed for educational purposes around sixty operations. He worked there with: Ambroise-François Parnaland (1854 - 1913), who founded in 1908 with Charles Jourjon (1876 - 1934) the Éclair Laboratories.

In 1899, the production company Association frères Lumière hired him as a cinematographer collaborator and technician for the shooting of the film Excursion automobile Paris-Meulan. Quickly, he started producing and directing feature films such as Le Duel d'Hamlet or Cyrano de Bergerac.

With Henri Lioret, he developed the Phono-Cinema-Theater, a pioneering system of sound cinema, presented at the Universal Exhibition of 1900.

Filmography Producer 1900: Le Duel d'Hamlet 1900: Jules Moy (Clément-Maurice Gratioulet) 1900: Little Tich et ses Big Boots (Clément-Maurice Gratioulet) 1900: Madame Sans-Gêne 1900: Mariette Sully (Clément-Maurice Gratioulet) 1900: Mily Mayer (Clément-Maurice Gratioulet)

Director 1900: Le Duel d'Hamlet 1900: Madame Sans-Gêne 1900: Roméo et Juliette 1900: Cyrano de Bergerac 1911: L'Inutile Sacrifice

Chief camera operator 1899: Excursion automobile Paris-Meulan produced by l'Association frères Lumière, opérateur 1912: La Dame aux camélias