Synopsis
What was the world like when such personalities as Jean Cocteau, Marcel Achard, André Roussin or Françoise Giroud were twenty? Let them tell you in person and let Cocteau present you such geniuses of the the first half century as Sarah Bernhardt, Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso or George Bernard Shaw at work. But you will also discover more mundane events like women taking part in a smoking competition or such weird inventions as the "walking truck". Come into the theater, ladies and gentlemen, and discover the twentieth century from birth to middle age!...
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Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producers : Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC), Société d'Études Pour l'Industrie Cinématographique (SEPIC)
- French distribution : Alliance Générale de Distribution Cinématographique (AGDC)
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producers : Roland Tual, André Halley Des Fontaines
- Screenwriters : Françoise Giroud, Marcel Achard, Jean Cocteau, André Roussin, Serge Roullet
- Director of Photography : André Dumaitre
- Music Composers : Georges Auric, Henri Sauguet, Jean Wiener
- Assistant director : Yannick Bellon
- Editor : Madeleine Bagiau
- Costume designer : Christian Dior
- Narration Writer : Jean-Georges Auriol
- Narrators : Pierre Fresnay, François Périer
- Participants : Jean Cocteau, Marie Daëms, Catherine Erard, Serge Lafaurie, Renaud Mary, Geneviève Page, Alain Quercy
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Historical
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Germany, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Germany, France)
- Production year : 1950
- French release : 16/03/1950
- Runtime : 1 h 40 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 9271
- Visa issue date : 17/03/1950
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono