They documented life in the trenches

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Two years later, it was the cinema that came to complete the still image. And in the dark rooms a fictional war was staged with reconstructed battles and exclusively German deaths. But the desire to see a little more truth was the strongest.

Major illustrated magazines launched competitions, offering to " pay any price for photographic material relating to the war of particular interest . "

Some soldiers themselves had "Kodak vest pockets".. Precious testimonies, essential for understanding what this great massacre of men was.



In just under 50 years, the image has been placed at the lithuania cell phone number list center of tensions between government, journalist and public. Its value, now known, could be limitless. Economically, politically very costly.

Moving images for the masses

Then we remember what was called "the news".



Every Wednesday, the French went to the cinema to watch the screening of Actualités françaises, Fox Movietone, and Actualités Gaumont. Sententious voices, spectacles of a world that was, after all, happy, the major dailies critiqued these agency films every Wednesday, as one critiques the work of a famous director. Great moments of history thus paraded before the eyes of all generations. Intrepid operators had been there at the right time. Serge Viallet's series "History Catchers" on ARTE is fascinating from this point of view.