Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

197826m

Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of French cinema from its birth to the beginning of the 1960s. With commentary read by Jean Rochefort.

Production

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Seasons

13 Episodes • Premiered 1978

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1. Les inventeurs ou la rencontre des photographes et des fantômes

Claude-Jean Philippe sees the invention of cinema as the meeting of photographers and ghosts. This film chronologically follows the progress of two inventions: Joseph Plateau's discovery of the persistence of retinal images, the perfection of his phenakitiscope, and Nieppe's invention of photography. The Lumière brothers' cinematograph is the culmination of this double discovery.

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2. Lumière et le cinématographe

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3. Méliès ou le génie de la surprise

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4. Le cinéma forain

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5. Episode 5

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6. Episode 6

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7. Episode 7

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8. Episode 8

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9. Episode 9

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10. Episode 10

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11. Episode 11

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12. Episode 12

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13. Les Années 20: De l'impressionnisme au cinéma pur

Cinema owes a lot to this experimental laboratory that was the French avant-garde between 1919 and 1924. Based on this observation by Henri Langlois, Claude-Jean Philippe shows that these filmmakers (Louis Delluc, Marcel L'Herbier) accused their difference, like the impressionist group. On the other hand, at the end of the 1920s, everyone dreamed of a "pure cinema".

Cast

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Jean Rochefort

Self - Narrator (voice)

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