“The first film archive began in Henri Langlois’ bathtub. A rumpled, film-mad Parisian, he began a small film club before rapidly progressing to compulsive hoarder after discovering that old, silent films were being quietly destroyed or recycled by their producers. (“The comb you use every morning might well have been made from a fragment of Broken Blossoms, The Cheat, or Coeur Fidèle,” he once said.) He began to tuck away can after can, sometimes purchased, often surreptitiously stolen, under his bed, and then in the bathtub until, in 1936, he found a space of his own: the Cinémathèque Française.”
-Audrey Young
(Audrey is part of Tóxico’s International Internship program)
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