Gaumont, Le cinéma premier: Louis Feuillade

Antología de casi 6 horas de películas que Louis Feuillade realizó para la productora Gaumont.  Incluye:

DISCO 1:

• Le Récit du Colonel (1907) (4 minutos). Absurdity enters daily life, a chef d'œuvre of cascades.
• Une dame vraiment bien (1908) (3 minutos). Comic scenes in the old Paris
• Bébé tire à la cible (1912) (7 minutos). Astonishing cynism from two bourgeois watching their maid having problems with their son.
• Bout de Zan vole un éléphant (9 minutos). As in many adventures Bout de Zan is accompanied by an animal.
• Erreur tragique (24 minutos). Cinema into cinema! René Navarre and Suzanne Grandais play husband and wife...
• Le Coeur et l’argent (1912) (18 minutos). Codirigido con Léonce Perret. A possessive mother, country landscapes of Parisian suburbs, the story of a passion
• Le Printemps (7 minutos). This picture looks like Puvis de Chavanne or Adolphe William Bouguereau!
• La Fée des grèves (7 minutos). Ondines from the German mythology
• La Nativité (14 minutos). A religious subject, kind of answer to Alice Guy's "La naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ"
• L'Orgie Romaine (9 minutos). "Esthetic film", a show of cruaulty, with an erotism which did not please Léon Gaumont!
• L'Agonie de Byzance (1913) (29 minutos). Big scenary, a crowd of actors, Feuillade's apotheosis! Like an opera!

EXTRAS:

• La veine comique (3 minutos)
• The comic into Feuillade's work
• Sales gosses (4 minutos)
• Kids' director
• Un précurseur de Cécil B. DeMille (13 minutos)
• Before Cecil B. DeMille...
• Le Miroir de l'écran (9 minutos)
• The cinematograph itself as a source for inspiration
• Une troupe (5mn)
• Faithful actors to Feuillade form his own company

DISCO 2:

• La Possession de l'enfant (11 minutos). Social life filmed as Scandinavian directors were doing it. Trying to do it with a low budget will guide Feuillade to his own style...
• Le Trust (24 minutos). A premonition film before Les Vampires. Some shots take place in Le Havre.
• La Tare (41 minutos). A denouciation of the morality of the reactionnary bourgeoisie. A fatalist protitute becomes a lady but her past follows her. Her suicide is commuted to an colonial  and humaniterian life...
• Le Nain (17 minutos), The impossible love between a nice young woman and a dwarf. Long before Tod Browning, an Liliputian actor plays his own role.
• La Hantise (24 minutos). The story of a fortune teller confronted to catastrophe. Very modern. Use of stock-shots, etc.

EXTRAS :

• Trop petit, mon ami (3 minutos)
• Delphin was a very small actor, he plays in Le nain
• Brûlante actualité (6 minutos)
• Ex-journalist, Feuillade gets inspiration into the news
• Une Doctrine : La Vie telle qu'elle est (7 minutos)
• To paint the world as it is was also Feuillade's ambition
• Ailleurs (9 minutos)
• Beside the studio, Feuillade was looking for unusual landscapes.

Original music by Patrick Laviosa.