Toute la mémoire du monde (1956)
- Directed by
- Alain Resnais
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 21 min
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 47 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This short documentary follows the daily operations of the National Library of France. It shows how books are cataloged, stored, and retrieved for readers. The film presents the library as a vast repository of human knowledge.
contemplativeobservationalmeditativereverentorganizedmethodicalquietintimate
What happens
Toute la mémoire du monde (also known as Toute la mémoire du monde – Encyclopédie de Paris numéro cinq, All the World's Memory and All the Memory of the World) is a 1956 French short documentary film directed by Alain Resnais and written by Rémo Forlani. It is narrated by Jacques Dumesnil. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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