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Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

1978
2 seasons
40 episodes
Documentary

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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  • Ep 1

    1.Les inventeurs ou la rencontre des photographes et des fantômes

    24-09-1978

    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 dis...

  • Ep 2

    2.Lumière et le cinématographe

    01-10-1978
  • Ep 3

    3.Méliès ou le génie de la surprise

    08-10-1978
  • Ep 4

    4.Le cinéma forain

    15-10-1978
  • Ep 5

    5.Episode 5

    22-10-1978
  • Ep 6

    6.Episode 6

    29-10-1978
  • Ep 7

    7.Episode 7

    05-11-1978
  • Ep 8

    8.Episode 8

    12-11-1978
  • Ep 9

    9.Episode 9

    19-11-1978
  • Ep 10

    10.Episode 10

    26-11-1978
  • Ep 11

    11.Episode 11

    03-12-1978
  • Ep 12

    12.Episode 12

    10-12-1978
  • Ep 13

    13.Les Années 20: De l'impressionnisme au cinéma pur

    17-12-1978

    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 tha...

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