To celebrate its 130th anniversary, Gaumont has launched Gaumont’s Treasures, a century-spanning retrospective showcasing 600 DCP film restorations made available throughout the year to exhibitors, film clubs and festival programmers. Of course, given Gaumont’s status as the world’s oldest film house, this year’s retrospective only scratches the surface of a library that quite neatly tracks the full history of cinema.
From 1896 to 1929, the company produced nearly 7,000 narrative shorts, and despite the losses to deterioration, the studio has nevertheless been able to preserve about half those titles — making for one of the most expansive records of the silent movie era.
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