The Société nouvelle de cinématographie (SNC) is a French film production and distribution company[1] founded in 1934 by René Pignères and Léon Beytout.
SNC produced and distributed many films with Louis de Funès including the six films in the Gendarme de Saint-Tropez series.
[2] The company and its catalog now belong to the Groupe M6.
In the 2010s, M6 Video re-released films from the SNC catalog in two collections: Les Classiques français (The French Classics) and Les Classiques italiens (The Italian Classics).