George Pallu(1869-1948)
- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Lawyer and Army officer, he was personal secretary to the French
Minister for Public Instruction, before he started working in films. He
was contracted by Production company Invicta Film, from April 1, 1918,
for one year as director ("metteur-en-scène"), to adapt Portuguese
literary texts to the cinema. His contract was renewed until the
company stopped film production in 15 February 1924. He was involved in
buying equipment for the company, namely when he went to Paris with a
major company partner to buy two development machines, and in
negotiations to sell films in France. His first work of adapting the
novel Le roman de Rose (1919) to the cinema was so appreciated, that the Portuguese
President confered upon him the honorary title of Knight of the Order
of Christ ("Diário do Governo", 2nd Series, 28-12-1919).
