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All the World's Memory

  • November 1956
  • 21mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Alain Resnais,

    Starring

    Jacques Dumesnil,

    Toute la mémoire du monde is 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.