Une histoire du cinéma français VI - Short films & Animated films
An exhaustive history of French cinema coordinated by Claude Beylie.
6th part
Two chapters, some shorts and animated films.
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The 6 chapters:
Une histoire du cinéma français I - The pioneers years 1880-1918
Une histoire du cinéma français II - Les "années folles" and the magnificent years 19-39
Une histoire du cinéma français III - The noir years and grey years 40-59
Une histoire du cinéma français IV - The breakdown years 60-79
Une histoire du cinéma français V - Today years 80-2000
Une histoire du cinéma français VI - Short films & Animated films
6th part
Two chapters, some shorts and animated films.
Full list
The 6 chapters:
Une histoire du cinéma français I - The pioneers years 1880-1918
Une histoire du cinéma français II - Les "années folles" and the magnificent years 19-39
Une histoire du cinéma français III - The noir years and grey years 40-59
Une histoire du cinéma français IV - The breakdown years 60-79
Une histoire du cinéma français V - Today years 80-2000
Une histoire du cinéma français VI - Short films & Animated films
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- DirectorJean ComandonCourts métrages
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- DirectorJean PainlevéAn educational film, a movie through a microscope, in two parts. Within minutes after the egg drops in the water, fertilization occurs and contractions start. Soon, in a fertilized egg, we see the germinal disc divide into two blastomeres. Divisions continue; contractions re-occur at the cap as it covers the egg. Title cards in French tell us what to watch for. Muscular movements and circulation appear; the heart beats. In part two, we see blood circulation begin as red cells develop on the surface of the yoke. They mass toward the heart. Arteries form, blood flows. The egg hatches and blood flows to new areas.
- DirectorJean PainlevéGeneviève HamonA complex creature. Regular underwater photography, magnified close-ups, and film through a microscope present sea urchins. We see their mouth and five teeth close and open. After injecting one with gelatin, the shell is removed and we see the muscle structure, digestive tube, and reproductive organs. Magnified stems reveal suction cups; stems lengthen and contract allowing the sea urchin to move. We see microscopic calcareous stems; at their ends are jaws with various uses. Cilia everywhere are in constant motion, stirring up water and debris. African music on the soundtrack suggests a shuffle dance.
- DirectorGeneviève HamonJean PainlevéAn octopus slithers into a narrow crack near the shore; we see its eye up close; blowing water propels it through water. It feeds on a crab. In spring it's time to mate. A male grabs a female; he inserts his third arm in her respiratory cavity. We watch another pair: a larger female is the aggressor here. Mating is repeated over hours and days. With high magnification, we see many sperm; she releases strings of fertilized eggs that hang from the roof of a nest. She guards it for a month, fanning the strings to circulate water for oxygen and cleanliness. We watch the eggs up close develop at 1,400 times nature's rate. Then they're born and propel away.
- DirectorRené BertrandJean PainlevéPerrault's fairy tale presented in claymation with choral voices. Bluebeard goes courting, all six of his wives having died. He arrives at the house of a widow with two daughters. He's greatly feared, but he overcomes objections with a generous dowry. One sister (Anne) refuses him; the other accepts. At his castle, the damsel delights in precious minutes away from Bluebeard in the rose garden. The Saracens declare war; Bluebeard goes off to fight them, leaving the keys to the castle in the damsel's hands. He warns her not to enter the forbidden room. As war rages, she discovers riches in the castle and then enters the forbidden room. Will Bluebeard discover her act? Can she escape death?
- DirectorMan RayStarsKiki of MontparnasseExperimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
- DirectorMan RayStarsKiki of MontparnasseJacques RigautA long series of unrelated images, revolving, often distorted: lights, flowers, nails. A lightboard appears from time to time carrying the news of the day. Then, an eye. A woman in a car drives along country roads. Farm animals. She descends from the car, again and again. Images: dancing legs, seashore, swimming fish, geometric shapes, cut glass. A man removes his starched collar. It rotates. A girl has garishly painted eyes. No, she's only fooling. Those were her eyelids.
- DirectorJean GenetStarsBravoJean GenetJavaTwo prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
- DirectorJean Grémillon
- DirectorJean DrévilleStarsAlfred AbelPierre AlcoverAntonin ArtaudA documentary about the making of L'argent, the epic silent film directed by Marcel L'Herbier. The film shows the details of many of the more complicated moving camera shots.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiPaul DemangeSchool for Postmen" is a 1947 short film directed and starring Jacques Tati, playing a French postman adamant to prove he can be just as fast as American postmen at delivering mail.
- DirectorRobert HessensAlain ResnaisStarsMaría CasaresJacques PruvostOn April 26 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was bombed without warning by the German aviation. Two thousand people, all civilians, got killed. Like millions all over the world, Pablo Picasso was shocked and he translated his emotion into a magnificent but terrifying picture bearing the name of the martyred city. This film does not only comment on the painting, it also gives it a new life through frantic camera and sound effects.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsJean Servais
- DirectorGhislain CloquetChris MarkerAlain ResnaisStarsJean NégroniFrançois MitterrandPope Pius XIIA documentary of black art.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsPierre DuxSacha ViernyPoetic and aesthetic visit of a large polystyrene factory.
- DirectorGeorges FranjuStarsPierre DevisLisbeth PerssonA residential area schoolboy discovers the odd universe of the Parisian metro. At a time, he glimpses the beautiful face of a blond-haired little girl. Later on, he falls asleep and dreams his first love dream...
- DirectorGeorges FranjuHenri LangloisIn Paris, come rain or come shine, he metro comes and goes, through stone tunnels and over iron bridges. The metro users in the corridors, mostly going up and down the stairs, come and go. Ankles, feet, legs, socks, shoes in perpetual motion. Fast, fast, faster and faster.
- DirectorGeorges FranjuStarsMichel SimonChoeurs des Petits Chanteurs de St. FrançoisA tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From François I's armor to Guynemer's airplane, to Napoleon's and Marshall Foch's tombs. But this is no ordinary tour,it is rather a chilling visit guided by Georges Franju and narrated by Michel Simon emphasizing - at times through biting humor -not the glory but the nonsense of wars, but their tragic aftermath.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Luc GodardIn a time before the New Wave, when aspiring French filmmakers could only hope to make shorts, due to restrictions on career advancement, Godard, working in Switzerland, funded, wrote, and directed a look at the construction of a dam there.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsNicole BergerAnne ColletteJean-Claude BrialyTwo French college girls each meet a boy named Patrick and quickly realize that it is less a coincidence then they think.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Claude BrialyCaroline DimJean-Luc GodardA young woman is going to Paris by bus, but when she steps out of her house she discovers that her garden and the whole village is flooded with water. With a boat and a bike she succeeds to reach a dry spot in the village. There a young man in a car offers her a lift. They drive around in circles, trying to find a way out of the area, but all ways are blocked by the water. Concurrently with the ever rising water the emotions within the two young people also start rising. At last they find their way out of the flooded area. When they reach Paris and the young woman looks up at the Eiffel Tower, she knows that she is going to spend the night with this man.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoAnne ColletteGérard BlainA jilted man (Jean-Paul Belmondo) rants at his mostly silent former lover (Anne Collette).
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsJean-Luc GodardStéphane AudranAnna KarinaTwo young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a snowy winter day. Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to make Charlotte jealous. After saying good-bye to Clara, Walter accompanies Charlotte into her house, although she doesn't want him to. Charlotte is hungry and cooks a steak. She asks Walter if he wants a piece of it. He says no, but she gives him a small piece anyway. He wants a kiss, and she says no. She starts to compare herself with Clara, who Walter agrees is more beautiful. In spite of this, Walter says he likes Charlotte much more, but she thinks he is lying. She notices that he is cold and shivering. She hugs him, he kisses her, and she starts kissing him. After leaving the house he accompanies her to the train.
- DirectorJacques DemyStarsYves DemyGeorges RouquierThis is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.
- DirectorJacques DemyStarsJeanne AllardAngelo BelliniJacques DemyThe monologue, taken from the theater, of a desperate woman who feels she has been wronged by her man.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsJean-Loup ReynoldA social commentary on post-war France's urban developments.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsHubert DeschampsClaude BerriEvelyne KerTwo men are disappointed by women and united by a whore.
- DirectorJean-Claude CarrièrePierre ÉtaixStarsGeorges LoriotNono ZammitLucien FrégisA woman is preparing a romantic dinner for two for her and her husband to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Her husband is out running a series of errands, most of his stops to pick up anniversary gifts for his wife. But the anti-anniversary Gods seem to be working against him as Paris traffic and other problems at each stop seem to be holding him up from getting in and out and to home on time for dinner. Meanwhile, his wife has no idea what has happened to her husband. Will it still be a happy anniversary by the time he makes it home?
- DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsChristiane PérezPascal RoyMaurice GarrelA young couple escape from school and home; they are happy in a lonely mansion somewhere; then, they are... asleep?!
- DirectorBertrand BlierStarsBernard HallerJacques Perrin
- DirectorEric RochantStarsIsabel OteroMarc BermanA strange young woman lives for a while with a man and brings troubles in his appartment and his life.
- DirectorPatrick BokanowskiStarsJean-Jacques ChoulJacques Delbosc d'AuzonClaus-Dieter ReentsA study of human anxieties about beauty, youth and objectification.
- DirectorPatrick Bokanowski
- DirectorPatrick BokanowskiReworked and colored images of people playing at the seashore.
- DirectorJean EpsteinIn a village in Brittany, a young maid and an old woman are spinning while the wind blows threateningly outdoors. In spite of the bad omen, the young maid's boyfriend decides to sail away. Worried, the young maid ask for help to a mysterious old man and his magical crystal ball in order to calm down the rough seas.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsFreddy BuacheJean-Luc GodardGodard has been hired to make a film celebrating the 500th anniversary of Lausanne. This film is his videotaped refusal.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsDorothée BlanckAntoine BourseillerAndré RousseletImpressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsAgnès VardaA documentary of the caryatids in Paris accompanied by the poetry of Baudelaire and the music of Offenbach.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsHervé ManganiLouis BecSaskia Cohen TanugiA real estate agent tries to sell a 7-room house with kitchen and bathroom to a young couple even though he had previously sold it to its former owners.
- DirectorJean-Daniel PolletStarsClaude MelkiThe setbacks of a shy boy in a ballroom frequented by a black and Arab clientele.
- DirectorMalo AguettantMaurice BornJean-Daniel PolletStarsRaimondakisPhilippe SollersPollet provides an insight into life on the leper colony of Spinalonga, an island off Crete, through the eyes of Raimondakis, who tells the story of his life to the camera after having been excluded from his community to spend years of his life on the island with his fellow sufferers. Themes addressed include love, community, companionship and death and the importance of these values to all people whatever their state of health.
- DirectorLuc MoulletStarsJacqueline FinnaertLuc MoulletPatrice MoulletThough a piece of meat figures in this film the real subject is, before you judge something not just a steak, think twice, as for instance the way two people in a situation present themselves to each other.
- DirectorLuc MoulletStarsFrançoise VatelA short documentary on coal mining.
- DirectorLuc MoulletStarsFrançoise VatelAlessandro Ninchi
- DirectorLuc MoulletStarsJean AbeilléJean-Pierre BonneauAndré ChauchatA humorous short in which passengers subvert toll checkpoints in order to avoid paying.
- DirectorLuc MoulletStarsLuc MoulletDany SavalThe director takes us to a cemetery for dogs.
- DirectorLuc MoulletStarsDidier BeaudetAn extremely unusual film on a very conventional subject: the description of a small French town.
- DirectorLuc MoulletStarsFrançoise BurauxRichard CopansAntonin DalmassoA Man tries different ways to open a Coca Cola bottle.
- DirectorÉtienne ArnaudÉmile CohlStarsRenée CarlMaurice VinotThe misadventures of a guest in an automatic hotel.Animation
- DirectorÉmile Cohl
- DirectorÉmile CohlA beautifully hand-colored magic film of excellent quality and detail. His Satanic Majesty makes his appearance time and again in a most congenial manner, and to the perplexity of the principal characters participating in the presentation.
- DirectorÉmile CohlA series of magic productions with a box of matches. Well rendered and highly entertaining throughout.
- DirectorÉmile Cohl
- DirectorÉmile CohlA magician gives a young girl a magic hoop which, when mounted on a wall, displays fantastic images.
- DirectorÉmile CohlThe first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
- DirectorÉmile CohlThe nightmare of Émile Cohl's chalk animation is one of unreliable appearances. Fishermen catch fish which eat them whole. Ladders transform into coils which just as suddenly take the form of angry mustachioed soldiers. The human figure at the receiving end of these transmogrifications is subject to all manner of degradations. Genuinely unsettling, THE PUPPET'S NIGHTMARE anticipates Don Hertzfeldt's stick-figure fantasias by a century.
- DirectorMarius O'GalopOnce one starts drinking, at the urging of the barkeeper, the path is inevitable: one goes home drunk, falls asleep in the hallway, gets the DTs, and winds up in prison.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczThe animated combat by night between stag beetles.(film russe sur IMDb)
autre film cité : La Cigale et la fourmi (1911) - DirectorClaude NuridsanyMarie PérennouStarsKristin Scott ThomasJacques PerrinA documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsWladyslaw StarewiczA stuffed animal goes on a journey through frightening streets to get its kid an orange.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsNina StarA partly-animated short film, a fairy-tale-like telling of why the nightingale only sings at night. A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the nightingale and its mate, and comes to realize that birds are not made to be captive but free. In return for its freedom, the nightingale loans the child its voice for use in the daytime, which is why nightingales only sing at night.
- DirectorIrene StarewiczWladyslaw StarewiczStarsClaude DauphinRomain BouquetSylvain ItkineWhen Renard the Fox's mischievous pranks go too far, King Lion is forced to attempt to bring the trickster to justice.
- DirectorBerthold BartoschWhen a liberal idea emerges in a tyranny ruled society, power and wealth unite to bring it down.
- DirectorAlexander AlexeieffClaire ParkerMussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals flee, and a horse gallops by. A child looks on. Monsters run and float by: the phantasmagoric is everywhere. A woman's figure tumbles through space. A clash ensues. The horse falls. Goblins take control. The night and its denizens are relentless. Forms appear and become grotesque. Will dawn and calm ever come?
- DirectorAnthony GrossHector HoppinA tone poem: two woodland sprites dance about, atop power lines and among flowers and leaves, while being pursued. Everyone spends some time pulling levers to switch trains, too.
- DirectorChristophe BlancStarsAgnès JaouiSerge RiaboukineBernadette LambertAfter fifteen years together, Francoise breaks with Jacques. She finds herself alone with her three children, her work as a nurse and her pretty house. Little prepared for this situation, which she did not choose, she began to go out at night, to frequent new places, open to chance meetings. She neglects her mother's duties a little, doing and saying things unthinkable until now for her. Francoise discovers that there may be an alternative to what she thought was the only way to live and be happy.
- DirectorOrso MiretStarsYann GovenOlivier GourmetBrigitte CatillonGuy's father was a hero during the French Resistance era but he never talks about it, or so little. When he dies,Guy, his brother and his sister have him incinerated, following a wish their dad had expressed when he was still alive. But Guy soon starts feeling uncomfortable about this move. Haven't they, by cremating the body of their father, make a hero disappear from man's memory? Haven't they used the same method as the Nazis to get rid of the remains of a hated enemy?
- DirectorJean AurenchePaul GrimaultAdvertisment for Levitan about a small, moving table.
- DirectorPaul GrimaultJacques DemyStarsPaul GrimaultAnouk AiméeMathieu DemyWhile working at his editing table cartoon maker Paul Grimault is visited by a little clown, the star of his movie "Le Roi et l'Oiseau". Paul, who is delighted, shows his guest several clips of his other films. Later on, they are joined by other animated characters created by Grimault until Anouk Aimée finally appears, in the flesh this time.
- DirectorAlexander Alexeieff
- DirectorPaul GrimaultA boy and his dog become stowaway aboard a gigantic flying boat.
- DirectorPaul GrimaultThe note seller Bicornu is annoyed by a troubadour named Niglo.
- DirectorPaul GrimaultA mean cat wants to eat two cuckoos but he must face a scarecrow.
- DirectorRaymond JeanninA Jewish radio announcer broadcasts the imminent arrival in France of Allied liberators. US planes, flown by Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Popeye, and defended by air gunners Goofy and Felix the Cat, drop bombs killing innocent French civilians.
- DirectorAlbert Dubout
- DirectorPaul GrimaultAn encounter on a rooftop between two policemen and a thief who specializes in lightning conductors.
- DirectorPaul GrimaultA minstrel, barred from entering a castle, is given a magic flute that can manipulate movement.
- DirectorPaul GrimaultAn animated short film about a wounded toy soldier who return from war to his beloved ballerina.
- DirectorPaul GrimaultStarsJean MartinPascal MazzottiRaymond BussièresA chimney sweep and a shepherdess seek to escape from the clutches of a tyrannical king.
- DirectorDallas BowerStarsStephen MurrayErnest MiltonPamela BrownThis exceptional theatrical version of Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic features a combination of live characters and stop-motion animation.
- DirectorÉmile CohlThe events that transpire in the drama are too well known to require reiteration here. All showmen and most auditors are familiar with the story. This makes the burlesque possible, for without a common knowledge of the original drama a portion of the comedy would be lost. The various parts are played by puppets in the hands of clever and careful operators.
- DirectorAlexander AlexeieffClaire ParkerA study in pins of a man who loses his nose which becomes a personality in its own right.
- DirectorRené LalouxStarsBarry BostwickJennifer DrakeEric BauginOn a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
- DirectorJean-François LaguionieStarsCharlotte Maury-SentierJean-Pierre SentierA short film about a couple who leave their home in New York City and spend the rest of their lives in a boat in the Atlantic Ocean.
- DirectorJacques ColombatStarsJacques FrançoisRolando FariaJulien GuiomarAs of his early childhood Robinson Crusoe has wanted to become a sailor. And when he does become one bad luck has it that the vessel he sails on gets shipwrecked. Being the only survivor of the catastrophe, he manages to take refuge on a desert island where he will spend several years, learning how to survive...
- DirectorJacques-Rémy GirerdStarsPierre-Henri DutronMarie-Hélène LeschieraFrançoise MonneretOne cold winter day, the postman Grand-Jacques sees a wicker basket slowly fall from the sky, and inside the basket is a baby! The baby Charlie goes everywhere with his rattle and it holds a number of secrets.
- StarsClaude PiépluAnimated birds, characterized by stupidity and ruthlessness, search for a new home on a changing planet.
- DirectorMichel BoschetAndré MartinStarsBernard Bing
- DirectorWalerian BorowczykTo the sound of trumpets, a collection of pulverised antique bric-a-brac begins to reassemble itself, revealing a stuffed owl, a cornet, a hamper, books, a doll, a plate - and a bomb...
- DirectorRené LalouxIn a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.
- DirectorJean-François LaguionieA cellist attempts to rescue a woman swept out to sea, only to find he must battle a series of overly possesive sea creatures.
- DirectorRené LalouxStarsJean ValmontMichel EliasFrédéric LegrosPiel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets. Calling for help, Piel's father's friend Jaffar keeps contact with the kid and hurries across space toward Perdide.
- DirectorRené LalouxStarsGlenn CloseChristopher PlummerPierre-Marie EscourrouAn evil force begins to destroy the idyllic paradise of Gandahar, where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature.
- DirectorJean-François LaguionieStarsMichel RobinLorella Di CiccoArmand BabelGwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.
- DirectorWalerian BorowczykStarsLouisette RousseauPierre ColletLouis JojotA dark and grotesque story of a married couple the wife, a mechanical monster made up of iron bits and her henpecked husband.
- DirectorPiotr KamlerStarsMichael LonsdaleWeary immortals inhabit a metropolis in the sky and amuse themselves with constructions as they kill time and await whatever comes next.
- DirectorRené GoscinnyHenri GruelAlbert UderzoStarsRoger CarelJacques MorelPierre TornadeAsterix and Obelix are tasked by Julius Caesar with accomplishing twelve impossible labors to determine the fate of their indomitable Gaulish village.
- DirectorRené GoscinnyHenri GruelMorrisStarsRoger CarelGeorges AtlasDaniel CeccaldiA wandering cowboy watches over formidable bandits who, to touch an inheritance, must eliminate the members of the jury who sentenced their uncle.