Léo-Ernest Ouimet
See also: Ouimet
Léo-Ernest Ouimet (1877 - March 2nd 1972) was a pioneer of the Québécois Cinéma.
Born with Saint-Martin-de-Laval, the son of a farmer, it received a formation in Electronic engineering. He works as projectionist with the Parc Sohmer and lights the National theater, then starts to present his own spectacles. In 1904, it uses its “cinétoscope” to project the results of the Canadian election.
In January 1906, it creates the Ouimetoscope , the first cinema of Montreal, which has at the beginning 500 seats. Having seventy-five piastres in its pocket, it pays of them fifty in rent for one month. The word Ouimetoscope was an idea of its publicity agent Gustave Conte, writer of the newspaper the Fatherland.
He films his family in his first productions, which are very popular near the public. He gains 5.000 dollars to buy a car the following year. Its Ouimetoscope comes seven years before the first great presentations on Broadway. It costs between 10 and 35 hundreds to enter and of the musical instruments are played inside. The men must sit down separate women.
In 1907, Ouimet increases its park in a true cathedral of 1.200 seats. He is the realizer of My hopes in 1908 . Ouimet is also interested in the Explosion of Halifax, new the Pont of Quebec and in the arrival of the Maréchal Joffre. The congress eucharistic of 1910 and the business of the Gare Windsor also interest it.
Ouimet encounters difficulties because it is only in 1912 that it can diffuse its films the Sunday, which monseigneur Bruchési likedoes not like. One of its greater success is the distribution of the film the dangers of Pauline , for whom the actress Pearl White receives an invitation of New York. In 1915, it creates the company “Specialty Film Importation”.
It must finally sell its theater and in 1922, it leaves for Hollywood, without however having the success which it believed to find. Does Ouimetoscope lose its name in 1924, year when it carries out Why get married? .
Of return to Montreal in 1933, it exploits the talking films which are done in France. Ouimet is financially ruined again in 1935, because it was continued after a fire killed two people in her theater. Later, he teaches with the seminar of Holy-Therese. The majority of the films which it carried out are disappeared today.
Died at the 94 years age, it could see the theater the Canadian taking the name of Ouimetoscope in 1967, which carries a plate in its memory. The Prix L. - E. - Ouimet-Molson is decreed in its honor. In 2006, one celebrates the hundredth birthday of its invention.
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Léo-Ernest Ouimet describes by itself on Radio-Canada
- Bilan of the University of Sherbrooke
- Biographie of IMDB
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