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.
DirectorClaude-Jean Philippe
CreatorClaude-Jean Philippe
Les inventeurs ou la rencontre des photographes et des fantômes
Sep 24, 1978
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.
Lumière et le cinématographe
Oct 1, 1978
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Méliès ou le génie de la surprise
Oct 8, 1978
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Le cinéma forain
Oct 15, 1978
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Episode 5
Oct 22, 1978
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Episode 6
Oct 29, 1978
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Episode 7
Nov 5, 1978
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Episode 8
Nov 12, 1978
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Episode 9
Nov 19, 1978
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Episode 10
Nov 26, 1978
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Episode 11
Dec 3, 1978
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Episode 12
Dec 10, 1978
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Les Années 20: De l'impressionnisme au cinéma pur
Dec 17, 1978
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".
