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The History of French Cinema: 1930 |
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| 10/1 – |
Rene Clair employs Marcel Carne as assistant director for Sous les toits de Paris (Under the Roofs of Paris). [ADD] |
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| 10/1 – |
La Nuit est a nous, France’s first sound feature (although filmed in the UFA studios in Berlin) is released. The film is directed by Roger Lion. [ADD] |
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| 17/2 – |
The planned projection of Sergei Eisenstein’s Staroye i novoye at the Sorbonne is banned at the last moment by Police Commissioner Chiappe on the grounds that it may provoke disturbances. [ADD] |
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| 21/3 – |
A censored version of G. W. Pabst’s Die Buchse der Pandora is released, provoking an outcry from critics. [ADD] |
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| 10/4 – |
Luis Bunuel returns from Spain after shooting L’Age d’Or, during which he fell out with artist and collaborator Salvador Dali. [ADD] |
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| 10/4 – |
Le Roman de Renard (The Story of the Fox), Wladislaw Starewicz’s only feature-length puppet animation is completed, although it is not officially released until 1937. [ADD] |
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| 25/4 – |
Sous les toits de Paris, Rene Clair’s first sound film, opens at the Moulin Rouge. [ADD] |
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| 29/4 – |
Painter Marc Chagall proclaims that colour films “will take away the charm of the cinema, for, by getting closer to reality, the cinema moves away from life. It thus becomes but artifice.” [ADD] |
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| 14/6 – |
Jean Vigo delivers a lecture “Vers le Cinema Social” at the Vieux-Colombier, illustrating key points with scenes from his first film A propos de Nice. [ADD] |
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| July – |
The battle for supremacy between rival sound technology company’s comes to an end at a Paris conference when it is agreed that German companies Tobis and Klangfilm will have exclusive access to mainland European markets – excluding Denmark because of patent claims filed by Peterson and Poulsen. The rest of the world is up for grabs or allocated to RCA and Western Electric. Whichever system is used, the technical standards are made compatible worldwide. [ADD] |
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| 5/8 – |
Erich von Stroheim returns to Europe with William Wyler on the Ile du France to visit his homeland, Austria, for the first time since 1909. [ADD] |
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| 25/10 – |
Jean Cocteau’s Le Sang d’un poete receives a private screening. Following the scandal over Luis Bunuel’s l'Age d’Or, this film doesn’t go on general release in France until January 1932. [ADD] |
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| 3/12 – |
Members of the Anti-Jewish League disrupt a screening of Luis Bunuel’s L’Age d’Or by crying “Death to the Jews!” [ADD] |
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| 12/12 – |
Police Commissioner Jean Chiappe bans Bunuel’s L’Age d’Or after a screen is splattered with ink by a fascist group. [ADD] |
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| 31/12 – |
484 feature films are shown in France’s 4,221 cinemas. 231 are American, 113 are German, and 100 are French. [ADD] |
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| Dec – |
Jean Painleve founds the Institute of Scientific Film in association with the School of Applied Arts and Crafts. [ADD] |
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– RCA grants Pathe-Cinema an exclusive licence for their sound system for France and French territories in North Africa. [ADD] |
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– Germaine Dulac assumes control of newsreel production at Pathe. [ADD] |
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– French actors strongly resist the practice of dubbing foreign-language films, refusing to play parts in which speech and gesture are performed by different artists. [ADD] |
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Other Key French Films of 1930 |
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Mor Vran (Jean Epstein) [ADD] |
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Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Alberto Cavalcanti) [ADD] |
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| Prix de beaute (Augusto Genina) [ADD] | ||||
| The History of Cinema: 1930 | ||||
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