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The Life of Christ
La Vie du Christ
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Alice Guy, Gaumont, 1906: La Naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ, twenty-five tableaux, about 680 metres, nativity through Passion, sold scene by scene or complete. Henri Ménessier built twenty-five wooden sets; some went up in the Forest of Fontainebleau, with about three hundred extras. Guy told Francis Lacassin she used James Tissot's Vie de Notre Seigneur as a model. Victorin Jasset managed exteriors and was long miscredited as director. Shot by Anatole Thiberville at Buttes-Chaumont and on location.
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The job: scale up. Twenty-five tableaux, twenty-five sets, three hundred extras, Tissot's paintings as the model. Guy ran a production the size of anything Pathé was making, and Jasset got the credit for decades. Watch the crowd scenes. This is what a studio could do in 1906.
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