:03:03
when they were still new,
still fresh,
:03:06
before they cleared
the hurdles of the rows behind us.
:03:09
Before they had been relayed back
from row to row,
:03:12
spectatorto spectator,
:03:14
until, worn out, second-hand,
the size of a postage stamp,
:03:18
it returned to the
projectionist's cabin.
:03:20
Doctor, l'm not nuts,
l'm here forthe paper!
:03:23
Maybe, too, the screen
really was a screen.
:03:26
lt screened us from the world.
:03:41
But there was one evening,
:03:42
in the spring of 1968,
:03:45
when the world finally burst
through the screen.
:03:49
Obeying an obscure coalition
of dubious interests,
:03:52
the Minister Malraux has driven...
:03:55
Henri Langlois
out of French Cinematheque.
:03:58
Chaillot offered us all
a free and fair conception...
:04:02
of film culture.
:04:04
Now, for bureaucratic reasons,
culture's arch-enemies...
:04:08
have seized this bastion of liberty.
:04:12
Resist them!
:04:14
-Liberty isn't given!
-lt's taken!
:04:17
All those who love film...
:04:18
-ln France.
-And abroad.
:04:20
-Are with you.
-And with Henry Langlois!
:04:33
Henri Langlois
created the Cinematheque.
:04:36
Because he liked to show movies...
:04:38
instead of letting them rot
in some underground vault.
:04:41
He'd show any movies,
good, bad, old, new...
:04:44
silents, westerns, thrillers.
:04:47
All the new wave filmmakers
came here to learn their craft.
:04:52
This is where modern cinema
was born.
:04:57
What lies behind it: the police!