All the World's Memory (1956)
A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.
Director: Alain Resnais
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Jacques Dumesnil as Self / Narrator (voice) |
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Agnès Varda as |
| Directing | Alain Resnais | Director |
| Sound | Maurice Jarre | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Pierre Braunberger | Producer |
| Editing | Anne Sarraute | Editor |
| Editing | Claudine Merlin | Editor |
| Editing | Alain Resnais | Editor |
| Crew | Ghislain Cloquet | Cinematography |
| Directing | André Heinrich | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Georges Delerue | Conductor |
| Directing | Jean-Charles Lauthe | Assistant Director |