ABSTRACT
How many of us could say, “I saw Nanook of the North for the first time (at least as far as I can remember) in September 1922”? How many more would still be thinking and writing about the cinema some fifty years later? Jean Mitry's life (1907–88) spanned a period which saw the flowering of cinema as a fully expressive art form. He must have relished his good fortune to have grown and developed intellectually and creatively along with the art he loved so much.
