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Pascal Fouché

    Ballets sans musique, sans personne, sans rien
    Discovering Lost Films of Georges Melies in fin-de-siecle Flip Books (1896-1901)
    • No living person has seen the earliest films of pioneering cinema magician, Georges Mé́liès. All that remain are his catalogs and a few archival images. The 2013 discovery of a flip book manufactured by an obscure Parisian bimbelotier, Léon Beaulieu, promised a glimpse of an unseen Méliè̀s film. This idea inspired years of investigation by researcher Thierry Lecointe -- a trail that led him to collector and historian Pascal Fouché and his amazing collection of more than 10,000 flip books, including 27 produced by the mysterious Beaulieu. The conclusions of Lecointe's ground-breaking research are astonishing. Léon Beaulieu's primitive flip books were comprised of images appropriated from early films, many of them lost treasures. Early films by Méliès, but also Gaumont, Skladanowsky and Pathé suddenly came to life after more than a century! This meticulously researched volume reveals how these miraculous discoveries were made and features more than 500 previously unpublished images that you won't have seen anywhere else.-- (Indiana University Press)

      Discovering Lost Films of Georges Melies in fin-de-siecle Flip Books (1896-1901)2020
    • Quand Céline rencontre les dieux et revisite la mythologie, quand il met en scène son imaginaire, on assiste à un spectacle total où l'amour, la jalousie, les sons et les lumières se mêlent en une sarabande extravagante d'invention et de drôlerie. Et Céline n'est jamais loin de la scène. Ne serait-ce pas lui-même qui parle ainsi du dieu Mars : "En musique formidable, il rémoule, rémoule... Je vous roule tous dans la farine ! Voilà son invective finale."

      Ballets sans musique, sans personne, sans rien2001