Our location of the day was the La Cinémathèque Française. The place is an amazing library of films. The Cinémathèque was first pushed and started by Henri Langlois. Langlois and colleges started the Cinémathèque by collection every and any film they could. Todays collection reaches over 50,000 films.
Inside is also a museum of cameras, costumes, art, and more that all have to do with cinema. The museum was a personal project of Langlois that started with the donation of Georges Méliès’s personal items from his film making days. Inside today you can see some of his cameras. The donations came from friends or were purchased pieces. There are so many pieces that sections of the museum are changed to help showcase them all.
My all time favorite donation was of the mother’s mummified head from Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho. The best part is that Hitchcock didn’t tell them he was giving it to them. He just sent it through the post.
The history of the Cinémathèque is vast and would take a long time to share. But some of the cool things about it today are:
- The currently work with several film institutes across the world.
- They show around 9 films a day.
- The currently building of the Cinémathèque was designed by Frank Gehry.
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