Charles Morand Pathé was a pioneer of the French film and recording industries. As the founder of Pathé Frères, its roots lie in 1896 Paris, France, when Pathé and his brothers pioneered the development of the moving image. Pathé adopted the national emblem of France, the cockerel, as the trademark for his company. After the company, now called Compagnie Générale des Éstablissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes, invented the cinema newsreel with Pathé-Journal.
Don Quixote, fully El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, is a classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615.
Ferdinand Zecca was a pioneer French film director, film producer, actor and screenwriter. He worked primarily for the Pathé company, first in artistic endeavors then in administration of the internationally based company.
Don Quixote or Don Quixote de la Mancha is the first sound film version in Spanish of the great classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It was directed and adapted by Rafael Gil and released in 1947. A huge undertaking for Spanish cinema in its day, it was the longest film version of the novel up to that time, and very likely the most faithful, reverently following the book in its dialogue and order of episodes, unlike G.W. Pabst's 1933 version and the later Russian film version, which scrambled up the order of the adventures as many film versions do. Characters such as Cardenio, Dorotea, and Don Fernando, which are usually omitted because their respective subplots have little to do with the main body of the novel, were kept in this film.
Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho, TVWV 21:32, is a one-act comic serenata by Georg Philipp Telemann. The libretto by the student poet Daniel Schiebeler is based on chapter 20 of volume 2 of Cervantes's novel Don Quixote. The opera premiered on 5 November 1761 in Hamburg. When first performed, it was given the title: Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho; later it was also known as Don Quixote der Löwenritter.
La Toile d'araignée merveilleuse, released in the United States as Incident from Don Quixote and in Britain as Magic Armour, and also known as The Marvelous Cobweb and as Aventures de Don Quichotte, was a 1908 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote.
Quichotte is a 2019 novel by Salman Rushdie. It is his fourteenth novel, published on 29 August 2019 by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom and Penguin Books India in India. It was published in the United States on 3 September 2019 by Random House. Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's classic novel Don Quixote, Quichotte is a metafiction that tells the story of an addled Indian-American man who travels across America in pursuit of a celebrity television host with whom he has become obsessed.
Les victimes de l'alcoolisme(English: Alcohol and its victims) is a 1902 French short drama film directed by Ferdinand Zecca, inspired by the 1877 naturalist novel L'Assommoir by Emile Zola. It is the first film inspired by this novel and one of first films aimed at fulfilling an objective of general social interest, in this case the fight against alcoholism.
Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs(English: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves) is a 1902 French short silent film directed by Ferdinand Zecca, inspired by the eponymous folk tale added to the One Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from the Maronite storyteller Hanna Diyab. It is the first cinematographic adaptation of this tale.
William Tell is a 1903 French silent short film directed by Lucien Nonguet and distributed in France by Pathé Frères. The original French title is Guillaume Tell. It is the first film adaptation of the eponymous play by Friedrich Schiller.
Drama in the Air, also known as Tragedy in Mid-Air is a 1904 French silent short film directed by Gaston Velle and distributed in France by Pathé Frères. The original French title is Un drame dans les airs. It is loosely based on the eponymous novel by Jules Verne.
The Strike is a 1904 French silent short film directed by Ferdinand Zecca and distributed in France by Pathé Frères. The film depicts a strike in a factory violently repressed by the Gendarmerie.
Christopher Columbus, also known as The European Idea of Christopher Columbus Discovering America, is a 1904 French silent short film directed by Vincent Lorant-Heilbronn (fr). The film is one of the oldest surviving example of the historical drama genre.
Rêve à la lune, also known as L'amant de la lune is a 1905 French silent short film directed by Ferdinand Zecca and Gaston Velle, and distributed in english-speaking countries under the titles Dream of the Moon, The Moon Lover and Drunkard's Dream or Why You Sign the Pledge. The film depicts a drunkard dreaming he is taken to the moon.
Au pays noir is a 1905 French silent short film directed by Ferdinand Zecca and Lucien Nonguet, and distributed in english-speaking countries under the titles In the Mining District, Down in the Coal Mines and Tragedy in a Coal Mine. The film is based on Emile Zola's novel Germinal.
La révolution en Russie, also known as Les événements d'Odessa and La révolte du cuirassée Potemkine is a 1905 French silent short film directed by Lucien Nonguet, and distributed in English-speaking countries under the titles Revolution in Russia and Revolution in Odessa. The film dramatises the re-enactment of events that had taken place a short time before in the context of the 1905 Russian Revolution and which would be the subject twenty years later of Sergei Eisenstein's celebrated film, Battleship Potemkin.
Lucien Henri Nonguet was a French film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the first film director and screenwriter of the Pathé company.
L'assassinat du grand-duc Serge, is a 1905 French silent short film directed by Lucien Nonguet, and distributed in English-speaking countries under the titles Assassination of the Grand Duke Serge and Assassination of the King of Serbia. The film is a docudrama dramatising the re-enactment of the assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia that had taken place a few months before in Moscow.
Children's Reformatory, is a 1907 French silent short film directed by Charles Decroix, inspired by the eponymous novel by Aristide Bruant.
