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Has the Film Already Started?

Fantasy
7.6·1951·1h 2m

“A pink moving screen will stand at the entrance to the theatre, in the night. One hour before the screening a projectionist will show Griffith’s Into...

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Cast

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Marcelle Dumont-Billaudot

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Christiane Guymer

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Bernard Marçay

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Isidore Isou

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Maurice Lemaître

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Gil J. Wolman

DIRECTOR

Maurice Lemaître

OVERVIEW

“A pink moving screen will stand at the entrance to the theatre, in the night. One hour before the screening a projectionist will show Griffith’s Intolerance on this screen. The start of the film will be announced at 8.30 but no one will enter before 9.30. During these 60 minutes of waiting, people on the first floor of the building will shake out very dusty carpets, and someone else will throw ice water on the heads of those spectators waiting for the screening. Some actors who have infiltrated the crowd will insult other actors on the first floor. At this moment only, and to stop the beginning of a scandal, the doors of the theatre will open…”