“Babylon”: outdoor filming, giant parties… the claims of the film scrutinized

Gargantuan Hollywood parties, colossal outdoor shoots involving thousands of extras, passage from silent to talking… “Babylon”, by mixing fiction and real characters, looks back on significant events that took place in Hollywood in the first half of the 20th century. century. We have verified the veracity of these facts with a specialist in cinema from this period, Katalin Pór, member of the Institut universitaire de France and professor of cinematographic studies at ESTCA-Paris 8.