Word: lianofilm
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...tragedy are the remarkable battle sequences in the last reel, an international patchwork of action shots enterprisingly assembled and cleverly welded. Russian-born Léon Garganoff and some of his fellow émigrés in Paris started an unpretentious photographic laboratory called Société Anonyme Lianofilm, made enough profit to try a picture. Garganoff sent Nicholas Farkas, his crack cameraman, to Japan. Farkas made a close study of aristocratic Japanese interiors, got shots of harbors cluttered with boats, of Japanese street crowds. He claimed that he made films of naval maneuvers which were confiscated...
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