Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois2004

Glenn Myrent:
I'd say the Langlois Museum's major significance is that we see, for the first time, unfolded in one place, the whole glorious history of cinema. Proving how international, how huge and elaborate the saga is. He showed us film history in all its complexity. Before the 1960s it was standard to say, "Film history begins with the Lumi?re Brothers in France and Edison in the U.S." The central fight was over who really invented movies. But the museum goes back centuries before: Chinese shadow puppets, magic lanterns, the discoveries of Emile Reynaud, Etienne-Jules Marey, Muybridge and many others. And it became obvious that it wasn't in 1895 that the cinema was born.