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Charles's law(medicine)
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Charles III(encyclopedia)
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Pathe, Charles (sh)




born Dec. 25, 1863, Paris, France
died Dec. 26, 1957, Monte-Carlo, Mon.

French film executive.

In 1896 he and his brother emile founded Pathe Freres, which distributed Thomas Alva Edison's Kinetoscope viewing device to French theatres. The firm entered film production using the camera developed by the Lumiere brothers. Pathe Freres filmed numerous short subjects, the majority of which are sensational criminal adventures, melodramatic love stories, and comic anecdotes. In 1909 Pathe produced his first "long film," Les Miserables, a four-reel screen version of the novel by Victor Hugo, and launched the Pathe Gazette, an internationally popular newsreel that ran until 1956. In 1914 Pathe Freres released the first episodes of The Perils of Pauline, one of the earliest screen serials. With facilities throughout the world, Pathe Freres dominated the film market in the early 20th century, and it remained a film distributor after Charles's retirement in 1929.