Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

1978•26m

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

Seasons

13 Episodes • Premiered 1978

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.

2. Lumière et le cinématographe

3. Méliès ou le génie de la surprise

4. Le cinéma forain

5. Episode 5

6. Episode 6

7. Episode 7

8. Episode 8

9. Episode 9

10. Episode 10

11. Episode 11

12. Episode 12

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

Jean Rochefort

Self - Narrator (voice)

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