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(Bazin,A. and J.Doniol-Valcroze, Ed.). Cahiers du cinéma. No. 1 à 159. Avril 1952 à Octobre 1964. (Facsimile-Édition). 14 vols. Paris, Éditions de l'Etoile 1992-1994. gr.8°. With numerous illustrations. oilwdbde. with illustrated OU. (The back edge of this somewhat lightened). Facsimile edition of the first 14 volumes of the most important French film magazine. - "The first editors-in-chief were André Bazin and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze. Many of the magazine's young authors later became directors of the Nouvelle Vague ("New Wave"), which is another reason why the film magazine is still highly regarded today. ... The prehistory of the Cahiers began at the end of the 1920s with Jean-Georges Auriol and Denise Tual, who founded the magazine La Revue du Cinéma in 1928, which was discontinued in 1929 after 31 issues and was published again by the two from 1946 to 1949. ... A second aspect of the prehistory is the founding of the ciné-club Objectif 49 with the participation of Jean Cocteau, Robert Bresson and Alexandre Astruc, which shows and discusses avant-garde films in Paris as well as American films by Orson Welles, John Ford and others. In 1949, the club organized the "Festival du film maudit" in Biarritz for the first time, at which films were shown that had previously been rejected by audiences and critics and were therefore not shown at the major festivals, such as Cannes. The criticism of a cinema that had become too traditional was already clearly formulated here. After Jean-Georges Auriol died in a car accident in 1950, André Bazin and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze jointly attempted to found a new magazine in his memory: the Cahiers du Cinéma appeared for the first time in April 1951" (Wikipedia). - New price of the individual volumes 400,-- Franc. - Good copy of the completely rare series.