CANNES INFO The CD-ROM "The Cannes Film Festival" brings you the thrill of the great moments of the Cannes Film Festival - past, present and future. With a catalog of more than 4000 films, you can discover several thousand photographs of your favorite stars, close to 30 minutes of video, all the information on the prizes, and much more. As you browse this CD, you will come to the Cannes Festival very well. The encyclopedia will allow you to find all the information on your favorite stars, a specific film or director, a country - even a specific award. When you are finished, you can test your knowledge of the 7th art in the Quiz section. CONFIGURATION The CD-ROM adapts automatically to the configuration of your monitor: 256, 32 thousand, or 16 million colors. For optimal viewing, we suggest you configure you system for 32 or 64 thousand colors and a screen resolution of 640x480. For questions concerning the videos please see the end of this document. Printing: The print function will send all jobs to your default printer. NAVIGATION The CD-ROM has ten main sections and a personal photo album. To use the different sections, move the cursor to a specific icon and click. There are also three options that allow you to browse different panoramas by year: The Stars, The Awards, and the Life of the Festival. To choose a year, click on the buttons underneath the year. The year will change, and this will change these sections. The Web offers you up-to-the-minute access to our server if you have access to an Internet connection. When you are viewing an image you can click on the image to interrupt its loading. If you want to reload it, just click on it again. To interrupt an image that is loading and view a text instead, click on the photo, then click outside of the photo. To stop a video that is playing simply click on it. AVAILABLE OPTIONS THE AWARDS Learn which film won which award for each year. In this section, you will be shown which film took the Palme d'Or. From there, you have the option of seeing each of the other winners for that year, too: the Prix d'Interpretation, the Prix du Jury and all the rest. THE LIFE OF THE FESTIVAL See the events that mark each festival, hear all the rumors, feel the ambiance of that year. In this section, you will find the videos that cover the festival between 1946 and 1976. That's not all. You will also find videos of the 1994 and '95 festivals made especially for this CD-ROM. At any time during the video, you can leave it by simply clicking. THE STARS See the greatest stars of the silver screen. You can zoom in to get a vision of life on the screen and learn more about them in the biographies section. PHOTO ALBUM In your trip through the half-century of the Cannes Festival you will be able to choose up to 2000 of your favorite photos to make your own album. To pick the photo you wish to place, click to load it, click on it again, then click on the right mouse button to insert it into the album. You can select photos from any section of the CD except The Web, Intermission, and The Life of the Festival. Once you have started your album, you can save it, copy it to a diskette, trade it with your friends, or send it to us. For more information on the technical options of this section, see the end of the document. The best albums will be added to the Web server along with our selections which you can view and download. To open your personal album, click on the group of four people who are walking towards the Palais des festivales in the main menu. THE WEB Direct access to our Web server via the Internet is available in this section. During the festival, the site will be updated daily. When you are connected, if you call a page with images you can interrupt its loading and go directly to the following page. See the information files in this section for more information on the various options of this section. INTERMISSION In this section you will discover the famous Nescafe trailers, which have been an integral part of the Festival since 1945. THE FESTIVAL In this section you will learn about the organization of the festival, its history, its key dates many other critical facts. THE CITY Here you will discover the celebrated city that hosts the festival each year. THE DEVELOPMENT OF FILM This section contains statistics and vital information which will help you better understand and appreciate the development of the art of films and filmmaking. THE QUIZ Test you knowledge of film and see if you can are truly a film expert. You can test yourself with a series of 20 questions. Each time you enter the section, these questions will change. Try for a perfect score of 20 out of 20--have fun, and good luck!! THE ENCYCLOPEDIA To find all of the information possible on the 7th art at Cannes and your favorite films. The Encyclopedia allows you to search for whatever information you wish using several different criteria. To begin a session, you need to first select your criteria, then you launch your search. The information on each film is extensive and variable and a simple search may yield only a title or producer (particularly if you are searching for short films), or it may give you a detailed file with a full resume of the film including the most important photos. To Search, you have three options: -Search by title and year To enter the title and year, move the mouse to the section you wish to search and click. Type either the full title, or the first few letters. For best results do not type articles like "the, a," etc.. You can also combine a title search with a search by year. -Search by Cast Begin as if you were searching by title, but click in the corresponding section. The search will work equally well for actor, directors, producers, or other celebrities. Using this option you can get a list of the works of a particular person. and you can follow the styles of the films associated with that person. -Search by Country, Prize and Year Click on the country and the prize you wish to search. The up and down buttons allow you to scroll through the list of available countries. If you do not wish to search by prize, click on the "all films" option. You can combine your search results with the year you wish to search, also. After you have made your search selections, hit return or enter, or double-click on your selection. The search can take several seconds to find the information you have specified. The list of the films or people will be displayed in a separate window. Select the particular film or person you want from the list displayed in this window. If any photos are available, they will be displayed automatically. EXIT To quit the CD-ROM, click on the Exit icon in the bottom-left of the screen. Saving and sending your photo album The album is found in a small file that saves pointers to the specific images. The file is called album.txt and it can be found in the directory on your hard drive where the main Cannes files were installed (normally this is c:\cannes). You can copy the file to diskette and send it to other people who have the Cannes CD-ROM. To send it to us, attach it to an e-mail message and transmit it to: album@filmfestivals.com. CD-ROM "The Stars of Cannes--50 Years of the Cannes Film Festival" © Copyright 1995 MULTIMEDIA PARTNERS Paris, France. All rights reserved. A coproduction of MULTIMEDIA PARTNERS and CINEPLUS/Les Archives du Cinéma. All rights to reproduction of this product are reserved. The reproduction, in whole or in part, of this CD-ROM, by any medium is strictly forbidden. If, despite developmental efforts taken with this CD- ROM, and despite our research, certain photographers could not be identified, and therefore are not credited. We offer our apologies for the inability to properly credit these individuals. If errors or omissions are discovered in this CD-ROM, every effort will be made to correct them in the next edition. VIDEO FOR WINDOWS Video for Windows will not be installed automatically from the CD-ROM during the regular setup if it is already installed on your computer. If Video for Windows does not function correctly, you can install it yourself from the version found on the CD-ROM. Use the RUN command in the File Manager and enter the follow path and file name: d:\vfw\setup.exe Note: On PC configurations without a sound card available it is necessary to click the mouse button to start the videos.