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Death of René Chateau: he was the pope of video cassettes

2024-02-14T18:59:26.190Z

Highlights: Death of René Chateau: he was the pope of video cassettes. He entered millions of French homes with the arrival of VHS in the 1980s. He had a face and a look like Bébel, his double on screen and his twenty-year-old associate, except that we never saw him. It showed. Films, and above all, it was a first, films at home without depending on the 8:30 p.m. broadcast of the only three channels at the time.


This video editor entered millions of French homes with the arrival of VHS in the 1980s, and its collection to glory


He had a face and a look like Bébel, his double on screen and his twenty-year-old associate, except that we never saw him.

It showed.

Films, and above all, it was a first, films at home without depending on the 8:30 p.m. broadcast of the only three channels at the time.

René Chateau, the king of VHS, died “last week” at his home in Saint-Tropez, his family said after the news was revealed this Wednesday by “Nice-Matin”.

The discreet distributor of French cinema left at the age of 84, at the end of a life as a buccaneer, a buccaneer, an adventurer, a mogul, a hero whose life would have made a film but who preferred to publish other destinies than his.

And first of all those of the icons Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo, with unforgettable video covers, guns brandished almost under the nose of the potential buyer.

He knew how to sell, and how to turn a cassette into a treasure.

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Source: leparis

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