Jean Mitry (1907-1988) was Professor of History of Aesthetics and Semiology of Film at Paris I University. The author of numerous works on cinema and the history of cinema, he is best known for Histoire du cinema: art et industrie, Dictionnaire du cinema, and Le cinema experimental: histoire et perspectives.
Christopher King is the director of many TV series and plays for both BBCTV and ITV networks in the U.K.