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THE MIME OF MARCEL MARCEAU
Documentary by Daniel Camus
Learning Corporation of America - 1972
Color, 22 minutes
| The man behind the many masks — the great French mime Marcel Marceau — speaks as a philosopher, an artist, and a teacher through words and movement. Scenes showing the various classes conducted by Marceau and the teachers at his school — classes in body movement, gymnastics, dance, fencing and mime — are intercut with scenes of Marceau in performance. These performances are sequences from his well-known theatrical repertoire and include "The Mask-Maker," "The Painter," and "The Creation." Each routine is shown as the formal delineation of the movements and the expressive concerns that the students are working on in class — each is an essay in the terse language that Marceau is passing on to them. The segment that ends the film is from a routine for Marceau's Bip character, called "Bip In The Modern And Future Life." It is a visualization of concepts that Marceau has described in words a few moments earlier. It is a daring challenge to the supremacy of words as man's language of articulation. A tour de force of physical technique, it is also a defiance of limitations on the expressive powers of the human body. (Summary from the original study guide for this film.) |
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Marceau's Stage Performance — His character Bip, his Style Pantomimes, his Mimodrames Video and Audio Recordings |
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