Scopitone
La chanson filmée 1960-1974
Paris, April, 1960 – gigantic Jukeboxes with monitors start an successful take
over of the French metropolis cafés. In the beginning this piece of furniture
hides 36 and later 21 rolls of 16mm film with a duration of 3-4 minutes.
This Scopitone offers for just one franc not just the actual chosen hit,
but its also possible simultaneously to admire the fabled Star on the monitor.
And all this in colour, in times when TV was still black and white!
Till 1974 renown musicians and smaller names of the French pop culture meet
the public in approx. 700 Scopitone clips. Sometimes a little cool twisted,
sometimes sensual chansonised or just earthy silly.
Directors like Claude Lelouch (Zazie in the Subway, A Man And A Woman) and
“Mamy Scopitone” Andrée Davis-Boyer (she made approx. 500 Scopitone films)
bank on spontaneousness and improvisation.
The films clips impress even nowadays with their authenticity, charming fantasy
and a certain amount of craziness.
Subsequently festival closing party: Galerie Disko with commando desirée
