The magazine “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” (Twitter)presented live by Laurent Delahousse just after the 8 p.m. news on France 2, recounts an unprecedented moment in the life of a personality, behind the scenes of an event or a place belonging to collective history. Reports that reveal the small story in the big one, to leaf through like a family album. This new season 4 issue of “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” returns on the sulphurous relations between cinema and propaganda in times of war…
The day when > Marcel Pagnol destroyed his last trilogy with an ax
The work of Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) is still alive almost half a century after the death of the French writer, playwright, filmmaker and producer. It is still adapted to the cinema as evidenced by the film The Time of Secrets, directed by Christophe Barratier, on view in cinemas. It is the last opus of the trilogy composed of The glory of my father and My Mother’s Castle. From the end of the 1930s, Marcel Pagnol, born in Aubagne, near Marseille, was known beyond his region and also beyond France. He was very popular in Germany… And when the Second World War broke out and France fell under the Occupation, Nazi Germany had every intention of using his talents and having him make propaganda films. In the middle of filming his new trilogy, Will Marcel Pagnol find the solution to escape this stranglehold? “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” tells the tragic fate of his last trilogy The Prayer to the Stars…
And also, Uncle Walt, an iron sailor…
News > Disney is going to war
At the end of the 1930s, Walt Disney was a very famous producer. He has just had brand new studios built in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The rise of Nazism is far, very far… seen from the United States, but the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese army on December 7, 1941, will force America to return to war. How to convince a population that does not feel particularly concerned? The army will then call on Uncle Walt and the formidable power of his cartoons. For four years, they will become a political weapon… and even influence the landing!
Bonus > Popeye and the spinach myth
Popeye and his iron-rich spinach, a myth that dies hard…
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– Marcel Pagnol or cinema in freedomby Claude Beylie (ed. by Fallois).
– The classic age of French cinema: from talkies to the New Waveby Pierre Billard (ed. Flammarion).
– The Films of Marcel Pagnolby Raymond Caftans and André Bernard (ed. Julliard).
– Pagnolby Jacques Bens (ed. Seuil).
– Cinema under the Occupation: the world of French cinema from 1940 to 1946by Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit (ed. Olivier Orban).
– Cinema diariesby Marcel Pagnol (private ed.).
– Marcel Pagnol, an inventor of cinemaby Guy Chapouillié and Pierre Arbus (eds. terahedron).
– Exposure Pagnol tells PagnolChâteau de la Buzine, in Marseille, until September 18, 2022.
– The Prayer to the Starsby Marcel Pagnol (ed. by Fallois).
– Comic The Prayer to the Stars / Volume 1, by Serge Scotto and Iñaki Holgado (Bamboo Edition). Volume 2 in bookstores on May 11, 2022.
– Entertainment and propaganda. Cartoons during World War IIby Sébastien Roffat (ed. the Harmattan).
– Political cartoons between 1933 and 1945. Animated propagandaby Sébastien Roffat (ed. Bazaar & Co).
– Storytellingby Sébastien Durand (ed. Dunod).
Non-exhaustive list.
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