méliès said that galipaux was one of the few stage-trained actors who adapted well to the cinema, because "he knows how to make himself understood without speaking, and his movements, even if deliberately exaggerated—which is necessary in pantomime and especially in photographed pantomime—are always appropriate." méliès also reported that it was the monologues of galipaux and coquelin that inspired the comic style of his own productions. galipaux himself said about the art of comic pantomime: "the mime certain of pleasing the public is the one whose means are simple and varied, his gestures restrained, hardly perceptible, but extraordinarily suggestive!" for his work, galipaux was awarded the title of "officier de l'instruction publique" in the ordre des palmes académiques.