Jean-Pierre Beauviala in Cahiers du cinema: The “Politique de l’inventeur” - Text 4
In short, Jean-Pierre Beauviala’s relations with Cahiers du cinéma, which for a time were formalized in the magazine’s statutes[4], were a kind of give and take. The engineer’s pedagogical tone and the story of his career as an inventor (a story similar to both a coming of age tale and a spy thriller) enabled Cahiers to put into words and extend their technical concerns, through texts into which even a novice could plunge. For Beauviala, Cahiers was a valuable space for expressing himself, an opportunity to state his thoughts on his own activity as an inventor and businessperson, and more generally on the technical environment in which he worked — not without, sometimes, a prophetic quality, when for example he foresaw the ordinary practices and urban, social and convivial activities to which video and television broadcasts could give rise.