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

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)

Trailer

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