After the tremendous popular success of thern Fant?mas novels, both of the major Frenchrn film studios — Pathé and Gaumont —rn vied for the rights to produce films basedrn on the series. Gaumont won, and f...
After the tremendous popular success of thern Fant?mas novels, both of the major Frenchrn film studios — Pathé and Gaumont —rn vied for the rights to produce films basedrn on the series. Gaumont won, and fromrn April 1913 to May 1914 Louis Feuilladern directed five Fant?mas films which criticrn David Thomson has described as "the firstrn great movie experience."
