The magazine, which had Jean-Louis Comolli as its editor in chief from 1966 to 1978, was founded in the year 1951.
 He was editor in chief of "Cahiers du cinma" from 1966 to 1978, during which period he wrote the influential essays "Machines of the Visible" (1971) and "Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field" (1971-2), both of which have been translated in English anthologies of film and media studies. 
Cahiers du Cinma (] , "Notebooks on Cinema") is a French film magazine founded in 1951 by Andr Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca. 
