Abstract: The ciné-roman-photo genre has today been forgotten about despite its phenomenal success in the period 1955–1965 and is wrongly considered to be a simple subgenre of the photo-novel. The genesis of the ciné-roman-photo shows it to be inseparable from other genres like the graphic novel or narrative film. We reflect on the criteria allowing us to distinguish between ciné-roman-photo and photo-novel, and on the more photographic than cinematographic horizon of these genres, at the same time similar and distinct.
