The art that most resembles cinema was music because it was a temporal and rhythmic art. Cinema was conceived as a mix of other arts such as music and painting, while the connection with the theatre was rejected. The French Impressionist directors were the creators of the most original and avant-garde ideas of the 1920s. Cinema is conceived as art, research and experimentation, the directors were not mere artisans but developed a theoretical and critical awareness of their art. The first films were made that reflect on cinema from a theoretical and artistic point of view. Impressionism and French art cinemaįrench cinema takes the form of new avant-gardes such as impressionism. The French were interested in discovering cinema and establishing a link between this art and the intellectual world. The France that had invented cinema continued to love it above all as an art form. There was the opportunity to attend debates, film reviews, avant-garde magazines were born. More film clubs were born than in any other part of the world. Executives at Pathé and Gaumont had understood that there was a lot less risk involved in distributing than making new films.Īlthough in the mid-1920s France produced only about fifty feature films and the United States 729, there was a great cultural ferment on the streets of Paris and other cities. Industrial films were often very expensive and financial failures were frequent. But things hadn’t worked out the way they thought. They had replaced Melies‘ artistic cinema and the other artisans of the cinema of the origins, they had established themselves on the market with arrogance to produce films for the general public. Pathè and Gaumont, which had been the first industrial film production companies in history, took care themselves to the distribution and production of technical materials, abandoning the production of films. Cinema was produced much more in the United States and Germany. The production of French films in the 1920s dropped dramatically.
Impressionism and new forms of cinematographic research replaced industrial film in France in the 1920s.
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