Gaumont Company Ltd

The Gaumont Company Ltd. was founded in 1898 in London by Alfred Claude Bromhead (1876-1963) and the French cinematograph inventor, Leon Gaumont (1864-1946), as the distribution subsidiary of Gaumont in France. In 1922, Alfred Bromhead and R.C. Bromhead bought out the French parent company's shareholding in the Gaumont Company in Great Britain, making it wholly British.

In 1927, Gaumont-British Picture Corporation was formed by the merger of the Gaumont Company and two other companies with the financial backing of the Ostrer Brothers. Alfred Bromhead became the first Chairman of the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation.

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