Gaston Quiribet Explained

Gaston Quiribet (1888–1972) was a French film director, cinematographer, and writer. He worked for Hepworth Studios. He used stop motion techniques to achieve cinematographic tricks.

At the 2005 British Silent Film Festival, David Williams gave a presentation titled: Gaston Quiribet That Clever Frenchman.^[1]

Filmography

Director

• A Day with the Gipsies (1906)
• Once Aboard the Lugger (1920), along with George Ames
• The Malvern Hills (1920)^[2]
• Mr. Justice Raffles (film) (1921)
• A Day with the Gypsies (ca. 1922)^[3]
• The Coveted Coat (1924)
• Fugitive Futurist: A Q-Riosity (1924)
• The Night of the Knight (1924)
• The Death Ray (1924 film), a Q-Riosity film
• The Quaint Q's (1925) Director
• Q-riosities by 'Q (1925)
• Plots and Blots (1925)^[4]

Cinematographer

• Around Bettws-Y-Coed (1909)
• Autumn in the Forest (1909)
• Burnham Beeches (film) (1909)
• From the Woodland to the Sea (1915)
• Village and Wood (1915)
• Among the Mountains of North Wales (1915)
• A Ramble in the New Forest (1915)^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: The 8th British Silent Cinema Festival . April 8, 2005.
2. Web site: BFI Screenonline: Malvern Hills, The (1920). www.screenonline.org.uk.
3. Web site: BAM/PFA - Film Programs. archive.bampfa.berkeley.edu.
4. Web site: Gaston Quiribet. https://web.archive.org/web/20190329000527/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f002bd0. dead. March 29, 2019. BFI.
5. Book: Gifford, Denis. British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. April 1, 2016. Routledge. 9781317740636. Google Books.