- Jacques Dupont was born on April 21, 1921 in Ruelle-sur-Touvre, Charente, France. He was a director and writer, known for La passe du diable (1958), Crèvecoeur (1955) and Trapped by Fear (1960). He died on March 10, 2013 in Crozon, Finistère, France.
- According to the great ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch, the documentaries made by Dupont and his student colleagues after World War II, centering on photography of the pygmies and the Congo, were the first quality materials produced by the French from black Africa, the previous such work going back to the Twenties having been informed mostly by a colonialist and prejudiced vision of the continent.
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