Movies: Les Films Du Compas

  • 1951
    Balzac

    Balzac (1951)

    Balzac

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    Balzac is a 1951 short documentary film by French director Jean Vidal. It is a biopic on the work, life, and loves of the French playwright and novelist Honoré de Balzac, his evolution as a writer and how his individual works fit into the design of L...

    Balzac
  • 1950
    Metro

    Metro (1950)

    Metro

    01950HD

    A short documentary about the construction of the parisian subway in the 50s....

    Metro
  • 1946
    Animated Cartoons: The Toy That Grew Up

    Animated Cartoons: The Toy That Grew Up (1946)

    Animated Cartoons: The Toy That Grew Up

    01946HD

    Traces the development of the animated cartoon from a 19th-century children's toy to modern Disney cartoons. Includes a complete animated show as it would have looked in the 1890s....

    Animated Cartoons: The Toy That Grew Up
  • 1946
    The Birth of Cinema

    The Birth of Cinema (1946)

    The Birth of Cinema

    01946HD

    The prehistory of the cinema as we know it today, with its great inventors: Marey, Muybridge, Reynaud, Edison, the brothers Lumière and their great inventions: the kinetoscope, the praxinoscope, the chromophotograph, the film camera....

    The Birth of Cinema
  • 1946
    Aubusson

    Aubusson (1946)

    Aubusson

    01946HD

    A documentary looking at the school of tapestry-weaving at Aubusson; and at painter Jean Lurçat....

    Aubusson