The misleading images of the CIA in Hollywood movies Hollywood has produced incredibly entertaining pictures of the CIA officers' lives. The mystery veil that surrounds the work of real-life intelligence operators lends itself to speculation and gaps are filled with fiction. These fictitious representations often lead to the solidification of the...

The silent cinema. Birth of an art The silent cinema. Birth of an art The pioneers of engineering The Lumière brothers, Louis (1864-1948) and Auguste (1862-1954), made the first public cinematographic projection on December 28, 1895; it takes place in the "Salon Indien", in the basement of the Grand Café in Paris, in front of 33...

Accelerated and slowed cinema  Accelerated and slowed cinema  The projection of the films is always done at a frequency of 24 frames per second (im/s), without it being possible to modify it because of the presence of the soundtrack. Indeed, the fidelity of the sound depends on the constancy of the scrolling of this track on the read head. When...

The image and the sound Principle of CinemaScope The image and the sound The silver film was created in 1889 in 35 mm width with two rows of lateral perforations. Today, the 35 mm remains the standard format, but others are born, narrower like 8 mm and 16 mm, or wider like 70 mm. The panoramic image is not necessarily obtained with a wide film....

Writing with moving images and sounds Writing with moving images and sounds The cinema, said Robert Bresson, "is writing with moving images and sounds". It is also an audiovisual technique, the oldest of all, whose essential links could only be assembled after more than a century of research. First came the idea of ​​a reconstitution of the movement...