The Musée de la cinémathèque (, ''Cinema Museum''), formerly known as Musée du cinéma Henri-Langlois (, ''Henri Langlois Cinema Museum''), is a museum of cinema history located in the

Cinémathèque française A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typically ...

, 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'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor who starred in several well-known sile ...

and

Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe ( ; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "Blonde stereotype#Blonde bombshell, blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex ...

, 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 Henri Langlois (; 13 November 1914 – 13 January 1977) was a French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema. His film screenings in Paris in the 1950s are often ...

(1914–1977), a cinema enthusiast who also founded the

. The museum was located in Paris in the

Palais de Chaillot The Palais de Chaillot () is a building at the top of the in the Trocadéro area in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. Design The building was designed in classicising " moderne" style by architects Louis-Hippolyte Boileau, Jacques ...

, 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

were relocated in the former American Center in Paris, built by

Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry ( ; ; born February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become attractions. Gehry rose to prominence in th ...

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

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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Musee Du Cinema - Henri Langlois Cinema museums Buildings and structures in the 12th arrondissement of Paris Museums in Paris

History

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References

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