01/01/2025
01/01/2025 News
Cinema is not a minor art!
DC Audiovisuel wishes you and your family a wonderful New Year, and may your dreams come true at the rate of two cranks and sixteen frames per second.
«If you don't make an enemy a day, you have to give up this business!»
Michel Laurent's observation when he returned our equipment after just one week's shooting, following an altercation with Maurice Pialat on the film Loulou.
Michel left us in February 2024 to be reunited with his much-admired friend François Truffaut. In 1981, he won the César for best sound for Le Dernier métro.
Two weeks later, Bernard Aubouy joined him, leaving his wives behind. Two César awards: in 1976 for Le Vieux fusil ; in 1978 for Diabolo Menthe.
2024 was the year DC Audiovisuel decided to give itself a facelift; 46 is the right age for a facelift - without botox! It was decided to create a certain geometry in the alignment of the storefronts, in the style of the 1930s.
During their demolition, newspapers from the period were found, as well as advertisements for T.S.F. stations. In 1930, a company called P. Moreau & Cie set up shop at 5 rue Edmond Roger, manufacturing radio sets known as Moduladynes. They were battery-powered, strictly French-built, and came with a 2-year warranty - "a single motto: do it right", as the leaflet read.
P. Moreau & Cie joined forces in 1925 with another manufacturer, Ets Grandin, headed by Raymond Grandin, whose son, Jean-François Raymond Grandin, made a career of singing under the name Frank Alamo (a tribute to John Wayne).
A leading member of the French Resistance, Pierre Moreau created the Marc-France partisan network; a commemorative plaque can be seen on the facade of 5 rue Edmond Roger; deported to Mauthausen, he was repatriated in 1945 and went into the manufacture of measuring devices for television.
He might have met Pauline Carton or Michel Bouquet, both of whom had lived in the building.
Let's not forget the line from the producer, brilliantly played by Jack Palance, at the beginning of the film Contempt (French: Le Mépris), which is likely to come back into fashion:
"When I hear the word culture, I pull out my checkbook."
In these difficult times, cinema ...
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