Georges Tairraz II Trailers
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Between 1857 and 2000, four photographers will, from father to son, invent and pass on the art of mountain photography. They are called Tairraz. Joseph Tairraz, Georges Tairraz I, Georges Tairraz II, and Pierre Tairraz. The story begins in Chamonix in 1857. Joseph Tairraz, son of the syndic (mayor), buys a daguerreotype device in Geneva. Four years later, before Auguste-Rosalie Bisson, the Emperor's official photographer, he took the first photograph at the top of Mont-Blanc. Very quickly, the young man opened a studio in the center of Chamonix. He will pass the baton to his son Georges. The dynasty is spawned.
Georges Tairraz (1900-1975), who will be called Georges Tairraz II, will in turn follow the double career of guide and photographer, extended from 1920 to the practice of cinema. He made his first documentary in 1934, L'Ascension des Aiguilles Ravanel et Mummery, before starting a long collaboration with Roger Frison-Roche. Technical adviser on the shooting of the film Premier De Cordée directed in 1943 by Louis Daquin, Georges Tairraz II accompanied Frison-Roche on his expeditions to Hoggar and Antarctica. With the guide and writer Gaston Rébuffat, he made two films on the north face of the Alps.
Georges Tairraz II is the father of Pierre Tairraz who also happened to retrace the history and transformations of Chamonix and mountaineering. For a century and a half, the Tairraz will be the incomparable photographers of Mont-Blanc and, over the generations, will taste the cinema and will befriend other great smugglers of the Alps, such as Roger Frison-Roche and Gaston Rébuffat. The dynasty went dormant on the death of Pierre Tairraz in 2000. It leaves us with a certain way of looking at the mountain, of magnifying its forms to express the emotions of those who think about it.
Most Popular Georges Tairraz II Trailers
Total trailers found: 17
10 November 1959
Famous British mountaineer Winter wants to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small village but no guide wants to accompany him.
20 April 1923
In 1923, André Sauvage produced his first film La Traversée du Grépon. Dedicated to mountaineering in the Mont Blanc massif, this documentary is a performance that earned him the recognition of his peers.
14 April 1948
A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a glacier. Unable to radio for help because of damaged batteries and with limited food supplies, the survivors must come to a decision -- whether to stay and wait for help they believe is coming or to leave the shelter of the wrecked plane and set out in bad weather to try to reach civilization.
14 December 1940
The owner of the place of Chamonix covets the inn, run by the Michel's uncle, whose business goes bad.
01 January 1947
Director Claude André Lalande illustrates the theme of three songs in images. We see and hear in turn Roland Gerbeau "Himalaya", Jacqueline François "From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter" and Jean Marco "The Ghost of Aunt Anna".
01 January 1924
"The ascent of the Aiguilles Ravanel and Mummery", climbed by young guides in cycling pants: The brothers Armand Charlet and Georges Charlet, Arthur Ravanel, Henri Couttet and Charles Balmat.
01 January 1952
"Sur Les Traces De Premier De Cordée", a color documentary from 1952 which will be released the same year as the eponymous photo book published by Arthaud, features Roger Frison-Roche and his sidekick Georges Tairraz II on the Aiguille du Grépon (3482 m) in the Aiguilles massif which overlooks the Chamonix valley.
01 December 1950
In 1950, the explorer Roger Frison-Roche made a crossing of more than a thousand kilometers on the back of a camel with the photographer Georges Tairraz II, in the heart of the Sahara, from Hoggar then Djanet in Algeria to Ghat in Libya.
01 January 1953
History, advice and demonstrations of mountaineering in the Mont Blanc massif by the renowned guides of the National School of Ski and Mountaineering from Chamonix.
01 January 1946
L'Appel Des Cimes, directed by Alain Pol, is a documentary commissioned by the CAF and the various French ministries on the practice of post-war mountaineering.
06 November 1959
"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behind the scenes of the daring shoots of its theatrically released or TV shows.
01 January 2000
Many mountaineers as part of their activity have used cameras and films to allow us to participate through images in their adventures and their emotions.
23 February 1944
A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps, near Chamonix and the French/Swiss/Italian borders.
01 June 1955
Gaston Rébuffat is part of the history of mountaineering. Marseillais prodigy, high mountain guide of the Chamonix guide company and famous for the ascent of the most famous north faces: some are 1st rehearsals, others 1st French or 1st as a guide.
11 May 2015
For a century and a half, mountain images by their beauty have largely gained from its influence, its frequentation and its development.
01 January 1961
This is Gaston Rebuffat's fourth film, in which, with several close friends, he discovers the sublime landscapes of the Alps.
