“‘Are you happy?' That is the question posed by the interview-sociologist Edgar Morin to passers-by in Paris in the summer of 1960. Chronicle of a Summer (90 mins, B&W) is perhaps the most sophisticated anthropological film yet made-involving psychodrama, self-presentations by director Jean Rouch and Morin, comments on the film by the subjects themselves. Rouch calls upon ethnographic filmmakers to climb down from the ‘observation post' stance of the zoom, to take their cameras into their hands and enter into a ballet improvised to the movements of their subjects.” (William Nestrick) Preceded by Pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1957, 22 mins, B&W), a wordless tale of a timid man at a dance hall that paints a fairly accurate portrait of customers of these halls, using ambient sounds and music to give fiction a realistic value.