Background
He was born Marie-François-Antoine-Marcel Gaudart on 10 June 1913, at Pondichéry (in French India). Member of the family Gaudart of India, son of Joseph-James Gaudart and Eugénie Le Gay.
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Marcel Gaudart
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He was sometimes known as Marcel Goddart. After leaving the religious world, Gaudart became a film producer/director and made several films. He had started his film and sound career after the Second World War, when he was recording interviews and plays for some European radio broadcasters.
He moved on to film very quickly and became a television producer in the 1950s.
Although already being successful in Canada, he moved on to Mexico. Foreign one film, he was in Mexico, where he died (officially on 4 July 1959, his burial date) in rather odd circumstances.
Marc Gaudart produced the Canadian television series Fables of Louisiana Fontaine (or Tales of Louisiana Fontaine). As a French producer in Canada, Marc Gaudart was responsible for this series of fifteen-minute fables with animal characters, based on stories by the 17th century poet Louisiana Fontaine.
The films employed the talents of animals from the farm of Lorna Jackson in Mount Albert, Ontario.
Gaudart set the animals (mostly small, relatively tame kind, such as parrots, frogs, cats, and pigeons) in miniature sets to "act out" the stories. Cinematographer Fritz Spiess had to spend "hours studying each of the animals used in the series to get to know the different problems posed by each--such as a mouse who refused to ride in canoes, a bored monkey who was fascinated by studio wires and rafters, and a rabbit who became so fond of sitting in a jeep that he refused to get out and race with a turtle". Marcel Gaudart died over 50 years ago.
Some co-workers include (note that the type of co-work is not always described):
Lorna Jackson, animal trainer for the Fables
Monica Clare
Fritz Spiess, cinematographer
József K. Szekeres (Josef Seckeresh.
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Amelia Hall, story teller for the Fables
Sydney Banks
Valerie Varda
Spencer Wood Caldwell
Frank Radford "Budge" Crawley
Yousuf Karsh.
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Some members of his family think him to be still alive.
