Word: cinemath
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University. A photographer friend turned him on to film making, and Van Peebles made several shorts, which he tried to parlay into a film job in Hollywood. He was offered two: elevator operator and parking-lot attendant. Meanwhile, Henri Langlois of the prestigious French Cinemathèque, the largest depository of film and film history in the world, saw some of his pictures and invited him to Paris. Langlois showed the films, and for a short time Van Peebles was a cinecult celebrity. He stayed on in Paris, panhandling, singing, dancing and playing the kazoo...
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