Credits
Director (1)
Actors (3)
Full credits (3)
- Directors of Photography : Henri Barreyre, Maurice Guillemin
- Author of original work : Jack London
- Producer : Renée Meyer-See
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : Silent
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1928
- Runtime : 22 min
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.33
- Audio format : Silent
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Construire un feu ("Build a fire", 1929) is the most ambitious of Autant-Lara's early shorts, an adaptation of the Jack London novel about a gold prospector which used a revolutionary camera lens and projection system, a fore-runner of Cinemascope. The film was withdrawn when the owners of other cinemas complained that it created an unfair competitive advantage. This was to be the first in a long series of set backs and disappointments which would hamper Autant-Lara’s career and poison his life.
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