 Documentary filmmaker Edouard Sailly made a series of shorts in the 1960s depicting daily life in the country.During this period there were a number of cinemas in the country, including in N'Djamena "Le Normandie", "Le Vogue", the "Rio", the "Étoile" and the "Shéherazade", and also the "Rex" in Sarh, the "Logone" in Moundou and the "Ciné Chachati" in Abéché.The film industry suffered severely in the 1970s-80s as Chad became engulfed in a series of civil wars and foreign military interventions; film production stopped, and all the cinemas in Chad closed down.