 From 1915 to about 1918, Chautard worked for the World Film Company based in Fort Lee, New Jersey.At World, along with a group of other French-speaking film technicians including Maurice Tourneur, Léonce Perret, George Archainbaud, Albert Capellani and Lucien Andriot, he developed such films as the 1915 version of "Camille", and taught a young apprentice film cutter at the World studio