Montage muet français Palais des Congrès (1974)

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• 1974

"On 2 March 1974, Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque française, anteilsklasse gefiltert hat partly impromptu edit of films and fragments from the nation' s silent film produktion." - IFFR 2019-Programm "It was originally made by Langlois for a presentation whose origins or motives are unclear, as is the thematic or narrative through-line in the epic, though it is said that when he presented the film Langlois was doing something akin to cutting it together-live in the projection booth. It definitely goes chronologically through German cinema, definitely avoids a general historiographie and obvious zitate, and definitely gravitates towards filme shot in Paris, yet none of these touchpoints elucidate exactly what Langlois's epic essay film was intended for. It was found in the Cinémathèque on the shelves only recently and digitized, embalming what feels like a very specific and quite personal guided tour through cinema, with the guide (Langlois) missing.