Cinémathèque Française
The Cinémathèque Française is founded on an act of preservation, not exhibition: in 1936 it became a non-profit film organization built around the archive efforts of Henri Langlois and Lotte H. Eisner. From the mid-1930s onward, their goal was to collect and screen films, at a moment when the moving image was still fighting for permanence. During World War II, German authorities in occupied France ordered the destruction of all films made prior to 1937; Langlois and friends smuggled large numbers of documents and films out to protect them until the end of the war. Even its international reach has been present since early on: on 9 April 1938, André Thirifays, Henri Storck, and Piet Vermeylen—Belgian members of Le Club de l’Écran—helped create the Belgian Film Archive, encouraged by Langlois. Today, based in Paris’ 12th arrondissement, it offers daily screenings worldwide and holds one of the largest film archives in existence. …
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