Réjane Hamus-Vallée

Present since the beginnings of the cinema, Matte Painting is a special effect which can be found in thousands of fake shots with an illusion so perfect that viewers are largely unaware of it. Consisting in combining in the same wide shot a real set and its continuation in the form of a painting, whether realized with brushes on glass or ...

The first academic work to tackle the issue of French special effects, the diversity of approaches, authors, genres and periods covered makes this a unique resource of its kind and a complete and unpublished reference of analytical elements on the subject.

Segundo de Chomón (1871-1929) is one of the undisputed masters in first cinematographic tricks and early coloring of moving images / early moving images coloring.

The first academic work to tackle the issue of French special effects, the diversity of approaches, authors, genres and periods covered makes this a unique resource of its kind and a complete and unpublished reference of analytical elements on the subject.

The first academic work to tackle the issue of French special effects, the diversity of approaches, authors, genres and periods covered makes this a unique resource of its kind and a complete and unpublished reference of analytical elements on the subject.

An original and exhaustive approach to a new cinematographic practice.

The first academic work to tackle the issue of French special effects, the diversity of approaches, authors, genres and periods covered makes this a unique resource of its kind and a complete and unpublished reference of analytical elements on the subject.

Designed in 1787, the Panorama offered the public a grandiose representation giving the feeling of visiting a city or reliving a historical event.

Segundo de Chomón (1871-1929) is one of the undisputed masters in first cinematographic tricks and early coloring of moving images / early moving images coloring.

From the stage to the cinema, from television to augmented and virtual realities, from circus performances to aquatic shows, the magician's practice has not ceased to be renewed and metamorphosed.

The stereoscopic illusion is, most of the time, associated with digital images. Such approach occludes its history: indeed, the stereoscopic illusion is the result of a century of research, that aim at wondering people by manipulating their senses thanks to the impression of « relief » stereoscopic images give them.