Musée du Cinéma – Henri Langlois

The Musée du Cinéma - Henri Langlois is a former museum of cinema history once located in the Palais de Chaillot, 1, place du Trocadéro, Paris, France. It was evacuated when the neighbor building, the Museum of French Sculpture was destroyed by fire in 1997.[1] It has reopened in 2005[2] with the "Renoir/Renoir" exhibition.[3]

The museum was created in 1972 by Henri Langlois (1914–1977), a cinema enthusiast who also founded the Cinémathèque Française. It presented "the living history of moving pictures, from their origins to the present day and in all countries", with collections including more than 5,000 movie-related objects including cameras, movie scripts, photographic stills, costumes worn by Rudolph Valentino and Marilyn Monroe, and several early movies and movie sets.

The museum was subject to an unusual court case when the Cinémathèque Française attempted to move the collection, in which it was argued (successfully) 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 museum's destruction by fire on July 22, 1997.

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References

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