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Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

1978 · 2 seasons · 40 episodes · Ended · FR3

Documentary

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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.

Episodes

  • S01E01Les inventeurs ou la rencontre des photographes et des fantômes1978-09-24

    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.

  • S01E02Lumière et le cinématographe1978-10-01
  • S01E03Méliès ou le génie de la surprise1978-10-08
  • S01E04Le cinéma forain1978-10-15
  • S01E05Episode 51978-10-22
  • S01E06Episode 61978-10-29
  • S01E07Episode 71978-11-05
  • S01E08Episode 81978-11-12
  • S01E09Episode 91978-11-19
  • S01E10Episode 101978-11-26
  • S01E11Episode 111978-12-03
  • S01E12Episode 121978-12-10
  • S01E13Les Années 20: De l'impressionnisme au cinéma pur1978-12-17

    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".

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