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1 John Landr EN-113 English Communication e! 2" #he $ath% &ilm Com'an!

In 1885, a Frenchman, Charles Path, created what later became Frances most successful film studio. By 1 !", the com#any had (0) e*'anded enormously and had studios in France, Britain, $ermany, Italy, %#ain and the &%'. (hat seems sur#risin) now that *ollywood dominates the film (1) +orld is that a French com#any (2) established itself so well in the &%'. Path was one of the main film com#anies there at that (3) time hirin) out its studios to other film+ma,in) com#anies (4) as +ell as distributin) its own films. *owe-er, (5) i, Path was bi) in the &%', it was a )iant in .uro#e. In 1 1/, the year before the First (ar (") bro-e out, Path made no fewer than three hundred films. But the war affected the com#any (.) badl!. %horta)es of staff and e0ui#ment led to bi) (/) cuts in #roduction, and by 1 18 out#ut had (0) ,allen to si1ty+three films. From then on, Path (10) concentrated on ma,in) fewer films of (11) greater len)th and better 0uality. Path was the first com#any to #ut out re)ular new films, which it started doin) in 1 !/. .ach film lasted fifteen minutes and (12) consisted of si1 news items. From (13) earl! on, Paths news de#artment had branches all o-er .uro#e and later all o-er the world. By the 1 "!s, 23 news had com#letely (14) ta-en over the role of cinema news films and so the com#any sto##ed ma,in) them. 2oday, Path is chiefly (15) involved in 23, cinema and new -ideo technolo)y. November 14 2005

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