Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
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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Jean Rochefort
Self - Narrator (voice) · 40 eps

Jean Epstein
Self (archive footage) · 3 eps

Marcel L'Herbier
Self (archive footage) / Self · 3 eps

Man Ray
Self (archive footage) · 3 eps

Abel Gance
Self (archive footage) · 3 eps

Jean Renoir
Self (archive footage) · 3 eps

Michel Simon
Self (archive footage) · 3 eps

Alberto Cavalcanti
Self (archive footage) · 2 eps

Jean Vigo
Self (archive footage) · 2 eps

Marcel Duchamp
Self (archive footage) · 2 eps

Jean Grémillon
Self (archive footage) · 2 eps

Arletty
Self (archive footage) · 2 eps

Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage) · 2 eps

Marcel Carné
Self · 2 eps

Thomas A. Edison
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

Étienne-Jules Marey
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

Émile Reynaud
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

Auguste Lumière
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

Louis Lumière
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

Georges Méliès
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
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