Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma Season 1 (1978)

Les inventeurs ou la rencontre des photographes et des fantômes

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.

Lumière et le cinématographe

Méliès ou le génie de la surprise