Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978)
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.
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Episode 1 - Les inventeurs ou la rencontre des photographes et des fantômes
Release Date: 1978-09-24Claude-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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Episode 2 - Lumière et le cinématographe
Release Date: 1978-10-01 -
Episode 3 - Méliès ou le génie de la surprise
Release Date: 1978-10-08 -
Episode 4 - Le cinéma forain
Release Date: 1978-10-15 -
Episode 5 - Episode 5
Release Date: 1978-10-22 -
Episode 6 - Episode 6
Release Date: 1978-10-29 -
Episode 7 - Episode 7
Release Date: 1978-11-05 -
Episode 8 - Episode 8
Release Date: 1978-11-12 -
Episode 9 - Episode 9
Release Date: 1978-11-19 -
Episode 10 - Episode 10
Release Date: 1978-11-26 -
Episode 11 - Episode 11
Release Date: 1978-12-03 -
Episode 12 - Episode 12
Release Date: 1978-12-10 -
Episode 13 - Les Années 20: De l'impressionnisme au cinéma pur
Release Date: 1978-12-17Cinema 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".