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QUENEAU Raymond.
MANUSCRIT autograph signed "R. Queneau", Arithmétique, 1951| 9 pages (3 p. in-8 on nrf letterhead and 6 p. in-4 on school notebook leaves).
A delightful introduction to mathematics for a short film written and performed by Queneau himself.
Arithmétique is part of a large-scale project for a filmed encyclopedia conceived by the production company Le Trident. An editorial committee, which included, in addition to Queneau, Marcel Pagnol, Pierre Lazareff, Jean
Cocteau and Marcel Carné, was invited to choose words from the French language to be translated into images by directors such as
André Labarthe, André Cayatte and Jean Grémillon. It is not surprising that Raymond Queneau chose the word "arithmetic", given his passion for mathematics and numbers. He had already thought of a screenplay entitled C'est bath les maths.
Pierre KAST (1920-1984) was commissioned to shoot the film. This young director had been Jean Grémillon's assistant.
It can be said, however, that Arithmétique is just as much, if not more, the film of Raymond Queneau, who wrote the text, and who appears on the screen throughout, giving a malicious and luminous lesson in arithmetic.
Behind a table on which various objects appear and disappear, as in a Méliès film, he plays a cunning, diabolical, sometimes disturbing professor, playing with an abacus, tracing figures on the blackboard or walking around waving his arms.
According to the critic Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, "Raymond Queneau is an astonishing actor, one of those sad, bewildered comedians in the style of Harry
Langdon, who are sorely lacking on our screen. In a sense, Queneau can be said to be Jacques Tati's only dangerous and direct rival.
The aim of the film is to make a priori arid questions accessible and amusing, with its humour: "If you see a wolf and a lamb together, that's two mammals| you don't take their tastes into account. [...] We don't take into account the physical properties of objects (12 eggs in a bag don't make an omelette| a pregnant dog giving birth doesn't count). Let us point out in passing the difference between the ordinal number and the cardinal number: runner n° 1 and runner n° 3 do not make four runners"... He ends his lesson by evoking the large numbers: "The googol: 1 followed by 100 zeros| there is less than one googol of electrons in the universe. The hypergoogol: 1 followed by 1 googol of zeros. Can a pot of water put on fire freeze? Yes, there is a chance in one hypergoogol of years".
Attached: 2 typescripts of the screenplay in a folder titled and dated "June-July 1951" (4 p. in-4 each)| The typed cut of the film with description of each shot and text opposite, bearing 8 autograph corrections (9 p. in-4)| 10 letters addressed to R. Queneau by the Productions du Trident| the typewritten draft
of the Encyclopédie fi lmée, and the minutes of the first meeting of its Editorial Committee| "Remarques générales sur la première sélection des mots de la lettre A" (3 p. dactyl, one annotated by Queneau)| a press clipping
MANUSCRIT autograph signed "R. Queneau", Arithmétique, 1951| 9 pages (3 p. in-8 on nrf letterhead and 6 p. in-4 on school notebook leaves).
A delightful introduction to mathematics for a short film written and performed by Queneau himself.
Arithmétique is part of a large-scale project for a filmed encyclopedia conceived by the production company Le Trident. An editorial committee, which included, in addition to Queneau, Marcel Pagnol, Pierre Lazareff, Jean
Cocteau and Marcel Carné, was invited to choose words from the French language to be translated into images by directors such as
André Labarthe, André Cayatte and Jean Grémillon. It is not surprising that Raymond Queneau chose the word "arithmetic", given his passion for mathematics and numbers. He had already thought of a screenplay entitled C'est bath les maths.
Pierre KAST (1920-1984) was commissioned to shoot the film. This young director had been Jean Grémillon's assistant.
It can be said, however, that Arithmétique is just as much, if not more, the film of Raymond Queneau, who wrote the text, and who appears on the screen throughout, giving a malicious and luminous lesson in arithmetic.
Behind a table on which various objects appear and disappear, as in a Méliès film, he plays a cunning, diabolical, sometimes disturbing professor, playing with an abacus, tracing figures on the blackboard or walking around waving his arms.
According to the critic Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, "Raymond Queneau is an astonishing actor, one of those sad, bewildered comedians in the style of Harry
Langdon, who are sorely lacking on our screen. In a sense, Queneau can be said to be Jacques Tati's only dangerous and direct rival.
The aim of the film is to make a priori arid questions accessible and amusing, with its humour: "If you see a wolf and a lamb together, that's two mammals| you don't take their tastes into account. [...] We don't take into account the physical properties of objects (12 eggs in a bag don't make an omelette| a pregnant dog giving birth doesn't count). Let us point out in passing the difference between the ordinal number and the cardinal number: runner n° 1 and runner n° 3 do not make four runners"... He ends his lesson by evoking the large numbers: "The googol: 1 followed by 100 zeros| there is less than one googol of electrons in the universe. The hypergoogol: 1 followed by 1 googol of zeros. Can a pot of water put on fire freeze? Yes, there is a chance in one hypergoogol of years".
Attached: 2 typescripts of the screenplay in a folder titled and dated "June-July 1951" (4 p. in-4 each)| The typed cut of the film with description of each shot and text opposite, bearing 8 autograph corrections (9 p. in-4)| 10 letters addressed to R. Queneau by the Productions du Trident| the typewritten draft
of the Encyclopédie fi lmée, and the minutes of the first meeting of its Editorial Committee| "Remarques générales sur la première sélection des mots de la lettre A" (3 p. dactyl, one annotated by Queneau)| a press clipping