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CHRONIQUE D'UN ÉTÉ (PARIS 1960) (Original title)SUMMER CHRONICLE (Alternative title)Chronicle of a Summer (Alternative title)CHRONIQUE D'UN ÉTÉ (Help search title)
Date: 1961 (Release)

Country: France

Un film de: Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin

Production company billing: Anatole Dauman presents A film by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin Production: Argos-Films This film was made with le comité du Film Ethnographique, Musée de l'Homme Paris Thanks to the help of André Coutant's photographic equipment
Synopsis: Documentary investigation into the lives of a group of ordinary Parisians, consisting mainly of tape-recorded interviews and some candid camera reportage.

Genre:
Documentary
Releases
Date: 1961not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 16mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 90 mins Length: 8100 FeetSubtitles: French
Date: October 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 90 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (29)
Production: Argos-Films, This film was made with: comité du Film Ethnographique, Paris Musée de l'Homme, Presents: Anatole Dauman, Producer: Anatole Dauman, Producer: Philippe Lifchitz, Production Manager: André Heinrich, Production Secretary: Annette Blamont, Scenario: Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch, Photography: Roger Morillère, Photography: Raoul Coutard, Photography: Jean-Jacques Tarbès, Photography: Michel Brault, [Camera] Assistant: Claude Beausoleil, Louis Boucher, Editor: Jean Ravel, Editor: Néna Baratier, Editor: Françoise Colin, Laboratory: Éclair, Sound: Guy Rophé, Sound: Michel Fano, Barthélémy, Mixing: SIMO, Jean Nény, Thanks to André Coutant for assistance with photographic equipment: André Coutant, Lighting Equipment: Moineau et Créteaux
Cast (21)
Marceline, Mary Lou, Angelo, Jean-pierre (interviewee), Jacques, Jean (workman), Régis, Céline, Jean-Marc, Nadine, Landry, Raymond (student), Jacques, Simone (employee), Henri, Madi, Catherine (artist), Sophie (cover-girl), Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin (interviewer), Jacques Rivette (Mary Lou's boyfriend)