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Vincent Blanchet
Vincent Blanchet (16 April 1945 – 13 March 2011) was a French filmmaker, documentary teacher and inventor of microphones. Biography Vincent Evart Blanchet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, to Dutch-born artist Bernarda Vleming Blanchet and French poet Jean Auguste Blanchet. From 1962 to 1967, Blanchet filmed a series of 16-mm amateur shorts in a Parisian Ciné-Club while attending the screenings of Henri Langlois at the Cinémathèque Française. Blanchet was inspired by Robert Flaherty, and the Direct Cinema tradition of Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker, Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault. While teaching cinema practice at Paris X Nanterre with Jean Rouch from 1969 to 1978 and documentary filmmaking at IDHEC, and elaborating his own practice as a filmmaker, Blanchet began working as cameraman and sound engineer. He won the Sadoul Prize for ''Histoire de Wahari'' in 1974 and became a member of the jury where he remained until 1989. In 1978, through the teaching practi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine (; literally 'Neuilly on Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is a commune in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in France, just west of Paris. Immediately adjacent to the city, the area is composed of mostly select residential neighbourhoods, as well as many corporate headquarters and a handful of foreign embassies. It is the wealthiest and most expensive suburb of Paris. Together with the 16th and 7th arrondissement of Paris, the town of Neuilly-sur-Seine forms the most affluent and prestigious residential area in the whole of France. It has the 2nd highest average household income in France, at €112,504 per year (in 2020). History Originally Pont de Neuilly was a small hamlet under the jurisdiction of Villiers, a larger settlement mentioned in medieval sources as early as 832 and now absorbed by the commune of Levallois-Perret. It was not until 1222 that the little settlement of Neuilly, established on the banks of the Seine, was mentioned for the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
