The Musée de la cinémathèque ( en, Cinema Museum), formerly known as Musée du cinéma Henri-Langlois ( en, Henri Langlois Cinema Museum), is a museum of
cinema history located in the
Cinémathèque française, 51 rue de Bercy in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. It presents the living history of moving pictures and pre-cinema, from their origins to the present day and in all countries, with collections of more than 5,000 movie-related objects including cameras, movie scripts and sets, photographic stills, costumes worn by actors like
Rudolph Valentino
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor based in the United States who starred ...
and
Marilyn Monroe, and showed several early movies from the important collection of the Cinémathèque.
History
The museum was created as "Musée du cinéma Henri-Langlois" in 1972 by
Henri Langlois (1914–1977), a cinema enthusiast who also founded the
Cinémathèque française. The museum was located in Paris in the
Palais de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadéro.
The Musée du cinéma Henri-Langlois was evacuated when the roof of the neighbor building, the
Museum of French monuments sculpture, was damaged by fire in 1997. The museum was then subject to an unusual court case when the Cinémathèque française attempted to store the collection for safety reasons, in which it was successfully argued that the museum was "unquestionably the creative work of one man and therefore protected under the law" and hence could not be disbanded. This decision was handed down several months after the 1997 fire.
In 2005, the Musée du Cinéma – Henri Langlois and the
Cinémathèque française were relocated in the former American Center in Paris, built by
Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry, , FAIA (; ; born ) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become world-renowned attractions.
His works are considered ...
in the
Parc de Bercy, and merged in 2007 with the Bibliothèque du film (BiFi). In addition to cycles dedicated to directors and cinemas of the world, the Cinémathèque presents temporary exhibitions, inaugurated in 2005, with "Renoir/Renoir".
Renoir/Renoir at the ''Cinematique Francaise'' website
See also
* Cinémathèque Française
* List of museums in Paris
References
Musée du Cinéma Henri-Langlois du Palais de Chaillot
Museums of Paris entry
TravelApe entry
* Laurent Mannoni, "Henri Langlois and the Musée du Cinema", trans. Richard Crangle, ''Film History: An International Journal'', 18:3, 2006, pages 274-287.
Appeals court rescues French Cinematheque. (French Cinematheque's Musee du Cinema Henri Langlois), Variety, December, 1997
External links
- official site at Cinémathèque française
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Cinema museums
Buildings and structures in the 12th arrondissement of Paris
Museums in Paris