Les Fiches de Monsieur Cinema


Figure 1.--The image here is a French movie card--Les Fiches de Monsieur Cinema (Mr. Cinema Picture Cards). It was a series of cards made on films all around the world. They were rather like baseball cards, but you didn't get any bubble gum. The boys here in their dormitory are wearing night shirts rather than pajamas.

The image here is a French movie card--Les Fiches de Monsieur Cinema (Mr. Cinema Picture Cards). It was a series of cards made on films all around the world. They were rather like baseball cards, but you didn't get any bubble gum. Tthe Monsieur Cinema cards were released from 1976 up to at least 2009 and is the longest running series of cards in the world. The series covers almost all films ever made from all countries, covering probably over 15,000 different movies. This was a French product, but not hust about French films. Even so, they provide information on French films which are not as extensively covered in film studies as American and British movie. These cards were released by mail order subscription only, never as a retail set, you had to remit payment each month to continue receiving new decks of cards in the mail. The back of this card has a write up about the film in French language and includes many specifications for the film including length, director, producer, actors, history of the film and much more. Most cards for films from after 1976 were released as the films were, so if the film was from 1980, a good chance the card was also originally released in 1980.







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