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.
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma: Season 1 - 13 Episode s
1x1 - Les inventeurs ou la rencontre des photographes et des fantômes
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.
1x2 - Lumière et le cinématographe
October 1, 1978
1x3 - Méliès ou le génie de la surprise
October 8, 1978
1x4 - Le cinéma forain
October 15, 1978
1x5 - Episode 5
October 22, 1978
1x6 - Episode 6
October 29, 1978
1x7 - Episode 7
November 5, 1978
1x8 - Episode 8
November 12, 1978
1x9 - Episode 9
November 19, 1978
1x10 - Episode 10
November 26, 1978
1x11 - Episode 11
December 3, 1978
1x12 - Episode 12
December 10, 1978
1x13 - Les Années 20: De l'impressionnisme au cinéma pur
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".