Cinematógrafo 1900
Nov 25, 1979Documentaire
Charles Pathé
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Autour de la roue
Oct 14, 1923Blaise Cendrars' AUTOUR DE LA ROUE (1923), a behind-the-scenes short documenting the production.
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Oct 01, 1910Recommandé par un ami du théâtre de l'Ambigu, Max muni de sa lettre est reçu dans la maison Pathé. Présenté au directeur, il fait ensuite des essais devant le réalisateur de la maison. Une semaine plus tard, il est convoqué aux studios de Joinville. Il doit jouer un mari qui rentre tard chez lui. Il est défenestré par sa femme et sa fille, recevant sur sa tête lit, matelas armoire... Une bagarre s'ensuit, roulant sur le macadam, il est arrosé copieusement par un agent municipal. Il doit néanmoins sourire devant la caméra et désabusé, il s'en prend pour finir au réalisateur.
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Ceux de chez-nous
Nov 22, 1915« Je rêvais d'une encyclopédie nouvelle... ». Sacha Guitry a réuni, « selon ses goûts » les plus grandes personnalités de son temps. Il les filme « dans leurs attitudes les plus familières, c'est-à-dire au travail, chaque fois que cela fut possible ». On y voit André Antoine, Sarah Bernhardt, Edgar Degas, Anatole France, Lucien Guitry, Octave Mirbeau, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir avec à ses côtés son jeune fils Claude Renoir, Henri-Robert, Auguste Rodin, Edmond Rostand, Camille Saint-Saëns. La version muette de 1915 durait 22 minutes. Elle était destinée à être projetée accompagnée d'une « causerie familiale faite par l'auteur, avec le concours de Charlotte Lysès ».
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Les hôtes de l'air
Apr 30, 1910Native British birds, from common gulls and cuckoos to the rare Richardson's Skua, are filmed in their natural habitat.
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La chenille de la carotte
Feb 01, 1911The carrot caterpillar hides among and feeds on the leafy foliage in carrot fields. A man demonstrates how difficult it is to detect and remove them from the carrot plants. They propel themselves with their six feet and twelve suction cups. To ward off enemies, they display two horns which secrete a malodorous liquid. Before the chrysalis stage of their development, they attach themselves to a surface and two days later burst from their shell. After spending the winter as a chrysalis, they emerge as swallowtail butterflies. Once they have bathed their wings in dew and dried off, they are ready to fly. (Library of Congress)
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Les sports dans l'armée des Indes
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Mass Meeting of Suffragettes
Feb 04, 1910This two-shot newsreel fragment surveys the scene at a Votes for Women protest on Trafalgar Square in the summer of 1910, when suffragists of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies presented petitions signed by supportive menfolk of Britain's towns and cities. (Edward Anderson, Make More Noise! Suffragettes in Silent Film)
Suffragette Demonstration in London (June 1910)
Feb 02, 1910This was one of the earliest mass marches organised by the suffrage movement, and up to 15,000 women marched from the Embankment to the Albert Hall to hear speeches from Christabel Pankhurst and other suffragette leaders (Ros Cranston, Make More Noise! Suffragettes in Silent Film).
Les Bords De La Tamise d'Oxford À Windsor
Jan 06, 1914The Thames, although insignificant compared to the rivers of the continent, has its own charm that painters and poets like Turner, Bonington, Eugène Delacroix, Whistler and Seymour have tried to render on paper or on canvas. In this film no grandiose scenes, just a river of silver flowing placidly between low banks, covered with trees. Here and there we pass through delightful little towns until we get to Windsor and dock in the shade of its famous castle.
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Voyage dans un train
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Clair de lune espagnol
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Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
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