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Louis Feuillade
Prolific early director of over 700 films and a key artistic influence in the years after his death on many important filmmakers. Feuillade began his career with Gaumont where, as well as directing his own features, he was appointed artistic director in charge of production in 1907. Feuillade's work was largely comprised of film series; his first, begun in 1910 and numbering 15 episodes, was "Le Film Esthetique," a financially unsuccessful attempt at "high-brow" cinema. More popular was "Life As It Is" (1911-1913), which moved from the costume pageantry of his earlier work to a more realistic, if somewhat melodramatic, depiction of contemporary life.