"
Don't you know what we're going to do to change the atmosphere?"
We will spend the evening at the Gaumont-Palace all three. "
Antoine's mom can be nice.
In
Les Quatre Cents Coups
, little Doinel goes to the cinema with his parents.
He sees
Paris belongs to us
, a film by Jacques Rivette (produced by Truffaut), and eats an eskimo for the first time.
He is happy.
We are in 1959. The cinema is at its peak.
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The Gaumont-Palace, Place Clichy in Paris, is the temple of the seventh art.
Inaugurated in the fall of 1911, it is the largest hall in the world with its 3,400 seats.
It then offers a program for the whole family (documentaries, melodramatic or comic series, news), interspersed with intermissions and musical interludes played by a large orchestra.
The price of seats varies from 50 centimes in the galleries to 18 francs for an orchestra box.
At the end of the 1950s, the big screen remained the unique setting for cinema, whose attendance and mythology were in the firmament.
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