Season 1

Episodes

• LLes inventeurs ou la rencontre des photographes et des fantômes
  Les inventeurs ou la rencontre des photographes et des fantômesE1 · 1978-09-24

  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.

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• LLumière et le cinématographe
  Lumière et le cinématographeE2 · 1978-10-01
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• MMéliès ou le génie de la surprise
  Méliès ou le génie de la surpriseE3 · 1978-10-08
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• LLe cinéma forain
  Le cinéma forainE4 · 1978-10-15
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• EEpisode 5
  Episode 5E5 · 1978-10-22
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• EEpisode 6
  Episode 6E6 · 1978-10-29
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• EEpisode 7
  Episode 7E7 · 1978-11-05
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• EEpisode 8
  Episode 8E8 · 1978-11-12
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• EEpisode 9
  Episode 9E9 · 1978-11-19
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• EEpisode 10
  Episode 10E10 · 1978-11-26
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• EEpisode 11
  Episode 11E11 · 1978-12-03
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• EEpisode 12
  Episode 12E12 · 1978-12-10
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• LLes Années 20: De l'impressionnisme au cinéma pur
  Les Années 20: De l'impressionnisme au cinéma purE13 · 1978-12-17

  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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