Marcel the Herbarium

Marcel the Herbarium is a realizer of French cinema, first avant-garde, born the April 23rd 1888 with Paris, and deceased the November 26th 1979 with Paris (France). He was also poet, lawyer, theorist of the cinema, founder of IDHEC, major actor within the trade unions of the cinema, and finally pioneer of ORTF.

Biography

He discovers the 7th art with the cinematographic service of the French Army during the Great War and is known to be one of the figureheads of impressionism to the cinema. Influenced by the literature Symbolist, the Herbarium was impassioned by the writing before passing to the realization by the thanks of the shock tested to the vision of Forfaiture of Cecil B. Of Thousand. In connection with the film " The argent" (Unfortunately not published in video and thus invisible except in cineclub) recognized by the critic like a major film of the history of the cinema on the artistic level, Marcel Carné denounced at the time a certain censure in connection with this film " composed in six thousand meters by its author and reduced to three thousand by the will of the éditeur".

Selective catalog of films

Silent films

Talking films

External bond

  • Marcel the Herbarium on Internet Movie very rich Database
  • Report of a Conference on Marcel the herbarium

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