PAGNOL (Marcel).

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PAGNOL (Marcel).
Cinématurgie (Hamlet). Autograph manuscript signed (on the cover), "Vieux Moulin des Pradons, April 1-6, 1942". 93 numbered pages, in an in-8 schoolbook (22 x 17.5 cm). First pages and last two pages torn out, these are written in black ink (mainly on the right page). This manuscript includes numerous corrections, additions (some on the left page opposite the text to be corrected), numbering in red pencil and ink. The notebook has also been written backwards on the fronts of 12 pages. We count: Draft of his play Judas (3 pages) - Minutes of a letter to producers (3 pages) - Detailed plans and dialogues of his film La Belle meunière (5 pages) - Blue pencil drawings (self-portrait and nude woman) - Calculations etc. A very important manuscript, which could be compared to a cinematography manual, even if the author writes the opposite: "However, it does not seem immodest to me to expose the principles which have always directed my work, and to make, before the eyes of the reader, the staging of a film (...)" (p. 2). He chose Hamlet for his demonstration and announced "We are going to prepare together the "cutting" that Americans call "treatment" (...)". Pagnol studies at length the first scene, which he dissects line by line. He presents the peculiarities of cinematographic writing "when it is a new work specially written for cinema, the director is not allowed to impose his will on the author. He must respect the manuscript as if it were a sacred text. (...)» (p. 77). He refers to the notion of focus, the choice of plans, etc. Provenance: Hôtel Drouot sale, 17 October 1983, no. 39 - Société des manuscrits des assureurs français (see La Collection de manuscrits des assureurs français, 2001, p. 267-268).
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