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This article examines the work of French critics of empire in the context of an international effort to minimize violence and suffering in Europe’s colonies during the interwar years. Rather than highlight individual political motivations, the article considers the important similarities of these critics’ works. Often writing in the style of documentary reportage and concerned with how policies caused suffering among non-European populations, authors as varied as Albert Londres, Félicien Challaye, and Paul Monet produced articles and books that critiqued colonial practices at their most fundamental level. They shared an interest in the impact of colonial rule with other European, American, and non-European individuals and institutions informally linked by the networks of the League of Nations and the International Labor Organization. The existence of these new networks removed key debates about colonialism from the national stage and opened them to the scrutiny of more international and, at times, anticolonial perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the historical emphasis to debates on the position of narrative in documentary filmmaking. The author explores how French contributed to an interwar documentary that covered general annotations except those from British and North American movements. The author explores the context of available documentaries in the French press, specifically the documentaire romancé sub genre.

The article discusses an invitation by the physics laboratory the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) for a young media professional to cover the story of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) when it starts up in the Fall of 2009. CERN is inviting applicants to submit videos and multimedia projects about ATLAS, which is one of four particle detectors on the LHC, in which the winner will spend three months documenting the initial collisions in the LHC.