Underplayed Gems

Paris Cinéma (1929)

Paris Cinéma poster
Directed by
Pierre Chenal, Jean Mitry
Genre
documentary film
Country
France
Runtime
49 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

This silent French documentary from 1929 shows how movie cameras and film techniques worked in the 1920s. The directors made it to explain the filmmaking process while teaching themselves at the same time.

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What happens

Paris-Cinéma es una película muda francesa dirigida por Pierre Chenal y Jean Mitryel 1929. Es el primer documental que muestra el funcionamiento de los aparatos cinematográficos y las técnicas cinematográficas del cine de los años 20.​ Chenal creó este documental para mostrar cómo se hacía una película y, al mismo tiempo, aprenderlo él mismo.​ (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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