1946 Cannes Film Festival

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1st Cannes Film Festival
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Official poster of the 1st Cannes Film Festival illustrated by Leblanc[1]
LocationCannes, France
Founded1946
AwardsGrand Prix[2]
Festival date20 September 1946 (1946-09-20) – 5 October 1946 (1946-10-05)
Websitewww.festival-cannes.com

The 1st annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 20 September to 5 October 1946. Twenty-one countries presented their films at the "First Cannes International Film Festival", which took place at the former Casino of Cannes. Only one year after the end of World War II, most of the films were about the war.[3] There arose several technical issues, such as the tarpauline cover blowing away in a storm on the day before the winners were to be announced, the reels of Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious shown in reverse order, and Miguel M. Delgado’s The Three Musketeers projected upside-down.[4]

During the first festival, the jury was made up of one representative per country, with French historian Georges Huisman as the Jury President. With more emphasis on creativity than in competitiveness, eighteen nations presented their films. Eleven of them tied for the first Grand Prix of the International Festival.[5][6][7]

Jury[]

The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature and short films:[8]

  • (France) (historian) Jury President
  • Iris Barry (USA)
  • (Canada)
  • (Czechoslovakia)
  • (Netherlands)
  • (Romania)
  • (UK)
  • Sergei Gerasimov (Soviet Union)
  • (Poland)
  • Domingos Mascarenhas (Portugal)
  • (Switzerland)
  • (Italy)
  • (Norway)
  • (Belgium)
  • (Sweden)
  • Rodolfo Usigli (Mexico)
  • Youssef Wahby (Egypt)
  • (Denmark)

Competition[]

The following films competed for the Grand Prix:[9][10]

Short films[]

The following short films were selected for the Grand Prix du court métrage:[9]

  • A City Sings by Gudrun Parker
  • Aubervilliers by Eli Lotar
  • Aubusson by Pierre Biro, Pierre Hirsch
  • Bambini in città by Luigi Comencini
  • Belyy klyk by Aleksandr Zguridi
  • Fall of Berlin – 1945 by Yuli Raizman, Yelizaveta Svilova
  • Cantico Dei Marm by Pietro Benedetti, Giovanni Rossi
  • Chants populaires by George Dunning
  • Chercheurs de la mer by Jean P. Palardy
  • Cyprus Is an Island by Ralph Keene
  • Des hommes comme les autres by R. Van De Weerdt
  • Die Welt by Sam Winston
  • En Route by Otto van Meyenhoff
  • Épaves by Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  • Flicker Flashbacks by Richard Fleischer
  • G.I'S In Switzerland by Hermann Haller
  • Handling Ships by Allan Crick, John Halas
  • Hitler Lives by Don Siegel
  • Instruments of the Orchestra by Muir Mathieson
  • Jeux d'enfants by Jean Painlevé
  • L'Homme by Gilles Margaritis
  • La cité des abeilles by Andrev Winnitski
  • La Flûte magique by Paul Grimault
  • La Locomotive by Stanisław Urbanowicz
  • Le Goéland by Willy Peters
  • Le Retour à la Vie by Dr K.M. Vallo
  • Les Digues en construction by Jo de Haas, Mannus Franken
  • Les Halles De Paris by Paul Schuitema
  • Les mines de sel de Wieliczka by Jarosław Brzozowski
  • Les Ponts De La Meuse by Paul Schuitema
  • Les Protubérance solair by M. Leclerc, M. Lyot
  • Lucerne Ville Musicale by Hans Trommer
  • Man One Family by Ivor Montagu
  • Me he de comer esa tune by Miguel Zacharias
  • Metamorphoses by Herman van der Horst
  • Molodost nashey strany by Sergei Yutkevich
  • Open drop ether by Basil Wright
  • Out of the Ruins by Nick Read
  • Parques Infantis by Aquilino Mendes, João Mendes
  • Partie de campagne by Jean Renoir
  • Springman and the SS by Jiří Trnka
  • Prisonnier de guerre by Kurt Früh
  • Rapsodia rustica by Jean Mihail
  • Réseau x by Mahuzier
  • Steel by Frank Bundy
  • Suite Varsovienne by Tadeusz Makarczyński
  • The Life Cycle of the Onion by Mary Field
  • The Purloined Pup by Charles August Nichols
  • The Way We Live by Jill Craigie
  • Un Port En Plein Coeur De L'Europe by Jaroslav Novotny
  • Vánoční sen by Karel Zeman
  • Wet Paint by Walt Disney
  • World Of Plenty by Paul Rotha
  • Your Children's eyes by Alex Strasser
  • Zvírátka a petrovstí by Jiří Trnka

Awards[]

The following films and people received the 1946 awards:[2]

Official awards[]

Feature Films

Short Films[2]

Independent awards[]

FIPRESCI Prize[12]

International Peace Award

References[]

  1. ^ "Posters 1946". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 18 December 2013.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Awards 1946 : Competition". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 October 2016.
  3. ^ "1938-1951: The birth of the Festival". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  4. ^ "1st Cannes Film Festival". intercontinental-carlton-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013.
  5. ^ "First Cannes Film Festival". history.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013.
  6. ^ "1ère Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  7. ^ "1946 - Cannes, ville ouverte (Cannes, open city)". cannes-fest.com/ (in French). Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  8. ^ "Juries 1946: All the Juries". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b "Official Selection 1946". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015.
  10. ^ "1946 Retrospective, In competition feature films". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  11. ^ "Hets (1944) / Awards". The Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  12. ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 1946". fipresci.org. Retrieved 24 June 2017.

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