Le cinéma du peuple

Le cinéma du peuple was a French anarchist film cooperative active in 1913 and 1914. In response to Catholic, bourgeois, military, and patriotic propaganda film, Yves Bidamant and Robert Guerard created Le cinéma du peuple on October 28, 1913, in the style of the 1912 "Theater of the People". The cooperative public limited company released nearly 5,000 meters of film reel through May 1914. Armand Guerra directed titles including La Commune with the group. The film was later restored by Cinémathèque Française. The cooperative ended with the rise of World War I.

Films

• Les misères de l'aiguille (Miseries of the Needle)
• Les obsèques du citoyen Francis de Pressensé (The Funeral of Citizen Francis de Pressensé)
• L'hiver, plaisirs de riches! Souffrances des pauvres! (Winter, Pleasures for the Rich, Sufferings for the Poor!)
• Le Vieux docker (The Old Docker)
• Biribi
• Francesco Ferrer
• Les Actualités ouvrières (The Workers' News)

Bibliography

• Mannoni, Laurent (2005). "Cinéma du peuple, Le". In Abel, Richard (ed.). Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. Taylor & Francis. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-415-23440-5.

Further reading

• Mannoni, Laurent (1993). "28 octobre 1913 : création de la société «Le Cinéma du Peuple»". 1895, revue d'histoire du cinéma (in French). 1 (1): 100–107. doi:10.3406/1895.1993.1014.
• Mannoni, Laurent (1995). "La Commune". In Bénoliel, Bernard (ed.). La persistance des images: tirages, sauvegardes et restaurations dans la collection films de la Cinémathèque Française (in French). Paris: Cinémathèque française. pp. 44–47. ISBN 978-2-900596-17-3. OCLC 799447677.
• Mundim, Luiz Felipe Cezar (July 2019). "As misérias da agulha do Cinema do Povo: um filme feminista no primeiro cinema" [The Miseries of the Needle of the Cooperative Cinéma Du Peuple: A Feminist Movie in the Early Cinema]. Significação - Revista de Cultura Audiovisual (in English and Brazilian Portuguese). 46 (52): 1–23. doi:10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2019.147866.