Produced for the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the film’s theme is communications. The docu-drama highlights one of the earliest means of long-distance artificial communication: the optical telegraph (semaphore). Invented as a means of transmitting messages from hilltop to hilltop using flagpoles with movable arms, semaphore played an important role in the Revolution.
Length: 42:00
Film Details
- Year Released: 1989
- Date Released: July 1989
- Alternate Titles: J'cris dans l'espace
- Status: Inactive
- 3D: No
- Run Time: 31-50
- Formats: 15/70
- Distributor:
S.E.M. La Geode, Big Films Inc.
- Produced By:
S.E.M. les Productions la Geode, Flach Film, Futuroscope, Lavalin Communications, Canadian Museum of Civilization
- Executive Producer:
- Producer: Jean-Franois Lepetit
- Director: Pierre Étaix
- Associate Producer:
- Writer: Jean-Claude Carrière, Pierre Etaix, Denis Guedj
- Cinematography: Henri Alekan
- Sound Editor:
- Visual Effects:
- Music/Score:
- Editor: Henri Lanoe
- Narrator:
- Other Credits:
- Sponsors:
Genre
- Documentary
- Historical