Musée du Cinéma – Henri Langlois

The Musée du Cinéma – Henri Langlois is a museum of cinema history once located in Paris in the Palais de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadéro, and now installed in the new premises of the Cinémathèque française, 51 rue de Bercy in the 12th arrondissement.

The museum was created in 1972 by Henri Langlois (1914-1977), a cinema enthusiast who also founded the Cinémathèque Française. 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 or Marilyn Monroe, and shows several early movies from the important collection of the Cinémathèque.

It was evacuated when the roof of the neighbor building, the Museum of French monuments sculpture, was damaged by fire in 1997.[1] The museum was then subject to an unusual court case when the Cinémathèque Française attempted to store the collection for savety 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 unfortunately handed down several months after the 1997 fire.

In 2005, the museum and the Cinémathèque française[2] were relocated in the former American Center in Paris, built by Frank Gehry in the Parc de Bercy, and merged in 2007 with the Bibliothèque du Film (BiFi). Un addition to cycles dedicated to directors and cinemas of the world, the Cinémathèque presents temporary exhibitions, inaugurated in 2005 with "Renoir/Renoir".[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Palais de Chaillot on fire at La Revue du Liban website (French)
  2. ↑ Cinematique Francaise website (French)
  3. ↑ Renoir/Renoir at the Cinematique Francaise website (French)

Coordinates: 48°51′47″N 2°17′22″E / 48.86306°N 2.28944°E / 48.86306; 2.28944

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