Movies: Les Films Du Compas
- 1951
Balzac (1951)
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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...
- 1950
Metro (1950)
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A short documentary about the construction of the parisian subway in the 50s....
- 1946
Animated Cartoons: The Toy That Grew Up (1946)
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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....
- 1946
The Birth of Cinema (1946)
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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....
- 1946
Aubusson (1946)
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A documentary looking at the school of tapestry-weaving at Aubusson; and at painter Jean Lurçat....