Félix Galipaux (12 December 1860 â€" 7 December 1931) was a French
actor, playwright, and humorist; known for his comic stage monologues,
such as Communication Telephonique (Paris, 1906). A few of these
monologues were recorded.Galipaux was born in Bordeaux, and educated
in Bordeaux and Paris.[1]He wrote some forty plays produced in
Parisian theatres.[1] He was also a newspaper columnist using the
pseudonym Félix Mayran, and collaborated with the writer Henri Pagat
under the joint pseudonym Pagalipaux.[2] Galipaux and the actor
Coquelin Cadet popularized the genre of music hall monologue acts in
the 1880s.[3] He and Gabrielle Réjane, in character as their roles in
the play Madame Sans-Gêne, are the subjects of Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec's 1893 lithograph Réjane et Galipaux dans "Madame
Sans-Gêne".[4] Galipaux was also one of the founding members of the
Cercle Funambulesque[5] and was linked to the Incoherents
movement.[6]In 1896 or 1897, the pioneering filmmaker Charles-Émile
Reynaud filmed Galipaux performing his popular routine Le Premier
Cigare.[3] The film, produced using Reynaud's complex
processâ€"requiring a negative to be filmed at 16 frames per second,
selected frames of which were then developed and enlarged onto
gelatine sheets and stencil-colored to create a sequence running at
three or four frames per secondâ€"took six months to make.[7] Galipaux
later acted in films by Ferdinand Zecca and by Georges Méliès, such
as An Adventurous Automobile Trip. The historian Georges Sadoul
reported that Pathé Frères featured Galipaux in some of the first
French sound films, such as La Lettre and Au Telephone (1905).[3]
Galipaux also made several spoken-word recordings for gramophone
records.[2]
actor, playwright, and humorist; known for his comic stage monologues,
such as Communication Telephonique (Paris, 1906). A few of these
monologues were recorded.Galipaux was born in Bordeaux, and educated
in Bordeaux and Paris.[1]He wrote some forty plays produced in
Parisian theatres.[1] He was also a newspaper columnist using the
pseudonym Félix Mayran, and collaborated with the writer Henri Pagat
under the joint pseudonym Pagalipaux.[2] Galipaux and the actor
Coquelin Cadet popularized the genre of music hall monologue acts in
the 1880s.[3] He and Gabrielle Réjane, in character as their roles in
the play Madame Sans-Gêne, are the subjects of Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec's 1893 lithograph Réjane et Galipaux dans "Madame
Sans-Gêne".[4] Galipaux was also one of the founding members of the
Cercle Funambulesque[5] and was linked to the Incoherents
movement.[6]In 1896 or 1897, the pioneering filmmaker Charles-Émile
Reynaud filmed Galipaux performing his popular routine Le Premier
Cigare.[3] The film, produced using Reynaud's complex
processâ€"requiring a negative to be filmed at 16 frames per second,
selected frames of which were then developed and enlarged onto
gelatine sheets and stencil-colored to create a sequence running at
three or four frames per secondâ€"took six months to make.[7] Galipaux
later acted in films by Ferdinand Zecca and by Georges Méliès, such
as An Adventurous Automobile Trip. The historian Georges Sadoul
reported that Pathé Frères featured Galipaux in some of the first
French sound films, such as La Lettre and Au Telephone (1905).[3]
Galipaux also made several spoken-word recordings for gramophone
records.[2]
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