Filmography
Grimault's filmography is as follows; those included in the retrospective La table tournante are marked with a star ("*").
Feature length:
- 1952/1953 : La Bergère et le Ramoneur, disowned, incorporated into Le Roi et l'Oiseau
- 1980 : Le Roi et l'Oiseau Received 1979 Louis Delluc Prize in December 1979, released in theaters on March 19, 1980
- 1988 : La Table tournante, with Jacques Demy, collection of shorts
- Named after the moving table in La séance de spiritisme (1931), which is the short that begins the collection.
Short:
- Monsieur Pipe fait de la peinture, 1936 (unfinished, film school)
- Les phénomènes électriques, 1937
- Le messager de la lumière, 1938 *
- L'enchanteur est enchanté, 1938
- Les passagers de "La Grande Ourse", 1939–1941 (originally Gô chez les oiseaux (Gô among the birds), 1939)*
- Le marchand de notes, 1942 *
- La Machine à explorer le temps, 1942 (unfinished)
- L’épouvantail, 1943 *
- Le voleur de paratonnerres, 1944 *
- Niglo reporter, 1945 (unfinished)
- La flûte magique, 1946 *
- Le petit Soldat, 1947 * (International prize, Venice Biennial 1948, Grand Prix of the Prague and Rio festivals, 1950)
- La Légende de la soie, 1950 * (short for the silk industry)
- Pierres oubliées, 1952
- Enrico cuisinier, 1956 (mixed with live action, with Pierre Prévert)
- La faim du monde (ou La faim dans le monde), 1957/58 (re-edited version for children, Le Monde en raccourci, 1975)
- Le petit Claus et le grand Claus, 1964
- Le diamant, 1970 * with Jacques Prevert, complement to L'Aveu of Costa-Gavras
- Le chien mélomane, 1973 * with Jacques Prevert
- Le fou du Roi, 1987–1988 * (made for La Table Tournante)
Other work:
- La séance de spiritisme (The spiritualist seance) (1931, live action advertisement by Jean Aurenche with stop-action animation by Grimault and Jacques Brunius)
- Two animated TV pilots (Chasseurs pécheurs and Les Sportifs de la Préhistoire), 1970
- Animated sequences projected during the show C'est la guerre, Monsieur Gruber (It’s war, Mister Gruber) by Jacques Sternberg, at the Odeon theater, during the Comédie-Française
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