Season 1

Episodes

1. 1

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

   24 Sept 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. 2

   2. Lumière et le cinématographe

   1 Oct 1978

3. 3

   3. Méliès ou le génie de la surprise

   8 Oct 1978

4. 4

   4. Le cinéma forain

   15 Oct 1978

5. 5

   5. Episode 5

   22 Oct 1978

6. 6

   6. Episode 6

   29 Oct 1978

7. 7

   7. Episode 7

   5 Nov 1978

8. 8

   8. Episode 8

   12 Nov 1978

9. 9

   9. Episode 9

   19 Nov 1978

10. 10

    10. Episode 10

    26 Nov 1978

11. 11

    11. Episode 11

    3 Dec 1978

12. 12

    12. Episode 12

    10 Dec 1978

13. 13

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

    17 Dec 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".