Georges Sadoul
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Georges Sadoul was a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 journalist and cinema writer.

Once a surrealist, he became a communist in 1932. He was a journalist of the Lettres Françaises.

He is the author of l'Histoire générale du cinéma, a comprehensive work on world cinema. He also produced an important work on the filmmaker Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès , full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was very innovative in the use of special effects...

.

He was trained at the Sorbonne
University of Paris
The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...

 and the IDHEC, a French cinema school.

He is also known for writing encyclopedias of film and filmmakers, many of which have been translated into English.
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