| Directed by | Marcel L'Herbier | |||||||||
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| Produced by | Cinégraphic | |||||||||
| Written by | Marcel L'Herbier
Pierre Mac Orlan Georgette Leblanc | |||||||||
| Starring | Georgette Leblanc Jaque Catelain Philippe Hériat | |||||||||
| Music by | Darius Milhaud | |||||||||
| Cinematography | Georges Specht | |||||||||
| Release date(s) | November 1924 | |||||||||
| Running time | 135 minutes | |||||||||
| Country | France | |||||||||
| Language | Silent film French intertitles |
"At each screening, spectators insulted each other, and there were as
many frenzied partisans of the film as there were furious opponents.
It
was amid genuine uproar that, at every performance, there
passed across the screen the multicoloured and syncopated images with which
the film
ends. Women, with hats askew, demanded their money back;
men, with their
faces screwed up, tumbled out on to the
pavement where sometimes
fist-fights continued."
For the scene of Claire Lescot's concert L'Herbier hired the
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and invited over 2000 people from the
film world and fashionable society to attend in evening dress and to play
the part of an unruly audience. Ten cameras were deployed around the
theatre to record their reactions to the concert. This included the American
pianist George Antheil performing some of his own dissonant compositions
which created a suitably confrontational mood, and when Georgette Leblanc
appeared on stage the audience responded with the required tumult of whistles,
applause and protests, as well as some scuffles. The audience is said to have
included Erik Satie, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Léon Blum, James Joyce, Ezra Pound
and the Prince of Monaco.
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