Din istoria criticii de film din România, 1896-1947

Between 1896 and 1947 we registered 53 authors who wrote film articles in 40 Romanian periodicals. Nineteen of them were writers, five – publicists, five – literary critics, seven – filmmakers, and one – actor. By 1947 there were also eight authors dedicated almost entirely to film criticism: M. Blossoms, Ion I. Cantacuzino, Lazăr Cassvan, B. Cehan, Barbu Florian (Ménalque), Ion Golea, George Theodorescu and Jean Vulpescu (Joseph de Saxa). Only five of them had an almost exclusive activity of film critics because Ion I. Cantacuzino, Ion Golea and George Theodorescu also worked in filmmaking. There were nine cinema magazines that appeared regularly. Hardly two or three generations of critics can be distinguished, that of Felix Aderca, Jean Bart, B. Fundoianu, Alexandru Kirițescu, Adrian Maniu, Henri Gad, Ion Marin Sadoveanu, M. Blossoms, Jean Vulpescu, George Theodorescu, comprising authors who began writing in the 1920s, followed by D.I. Suchianu who began writing in 1928, by those who began writing in the 1930s such as Ion I. Cantacuzino, Horia Igiroșanu, Paul B. Marian, Geo Bogza, Barbu Florian, Ion Golea and those who have written film articles since the 1940s: B. Cehan, Lazăr Cassvan and Victor Iliu.