Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma - Season 1
1 - Les inventeurs ou la rencontre des photographes et des fantômes
Air Date: September 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.
2 - Lumière et le cinématographe
Air Date: October 1, 1978
3 - Méliès ou le génie de la surprise
Air Date: October 8, 1978
4 - Le cinéma forain
Air Date: October 15, 1978
5 - Episode 5
Air Date: October 22, 1978
6 - Episode 6
Air Date: October 29, 1978
7 - Episode 7
Air Date: November 5, 1978
8 - Episode 8
Air Date: November 12, 1978
9 - Episode 9
Air Date: November 19, 1978
10 - Episode 10
Air Date: November 26, 1978
11 - Episode 11
Air Date: December 3, 1978
12 - Episode 12
Air Date: December 10, 1978
13 - Les Années 20: De l'impressionnisme au cinéma pur
Air Date: December 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".