Recent acquisitions | La Cinémathèque québécoise

One of the Cinémathèque’s main means of acquisition for all its collections is through donations of various items from filmmakers, video makers, artists, craftspersons, producers, collectors, researchers and teachers in the fields of cinema, television, video and new media. Since the Cinémathèque is a registered charity, it can issue a tax receipt for the fair market value of the donated item.

DOCUMENTATION AND MÉDIATHÈQUE GUY-L.-COTÉ

New acquisitions

Latest acquisitions available for consultation:

Voici quelques nouveautés reçues en mai et disponibles pour consultation sur place à la médiathèque Guy-L.-Coté :

Lherminier, Pierre - Annales du cinéma français : Les voies du silence 1895-1929 (2012, Nouveau Monde). 1135 pages.
Milly, Julien - Au seuil de l'image (2012, Champ Vallon)
Aurouet, Carole - Le Cinéma dessiné de Jacques Prévert (2012, Textuel)
Ince, Kate – Georges Franju : Au-delà du cinéma fantastique (2008, L’Harmattan)
Saule, Peggy - Le spinozisme de Robert Bresson: Un cinéma éthique et moral (2011, Éditions universitaires européennes)
Astic, Guy - Twin Peaks : Les laboratoires de David Lynch (2008, Rouge profond)
Kurosawa, Kiyoshi - Mon effroyable histoire du cinéma : Entretiens avec Makoto Shinozaki (2008, Rouge profond)
Pamart, Jean-Michel - Deleuze et le cinéma : L'armature philosophique des livres sur le cinéma (2012, Kimé)
Blattner, Evamarie ; Wiegmann, Karlheinz ; Lotte Reiniger (Illustrations) - Lotte Reiniger : Born With Enchanting Hands: Three Silhouette Sequels (2012, Wasmuth)
Orignac, Guillaume - David Fincher ou l'heure numérique (2011, Capricci)
Collectif - Musique et cinéma : le mariage du siècle (2013, Actes sud)
Scheinfeigel, Maxime - Rêves et cauchemars au cinéma (2012, Armand Colin)
Gombeaud, Adrien et al. - Kim Ki-Duk - (2006, Dis Voir)
Pomerance, Murray - Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013, Polity)
Lafond, Frank - Joe Dante. L'art du je(u) (2011, Rouge profond)
Feigelson, Kristian ; Dagnaud, Monique - Théorème 16 : Bollywood : Industrie des images (2012, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Hand-Painted Film by Gordon Webber

New acquisition

In 2010, the Cinémathèque québécoise found a film by Gordon Webber in the Gordon Webber fonds in the John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection at McGill University in Montréal. The film, made at the end of the 1940s, was an abstract work painted on nitrate film stock.

Born in Ontario in 1909, Gordon Webber studied at the New Bauhaus in Chicago from 1937 to 1942 before settling in Quebec. He taught at McGill's School of Architecture until the year of his death in 1965. A painter and photographer in addition to a professor of architecture, Webber was a leading figure in the avant-garde of the day and had a profound impact on his students through his original teaching methods.

This atypical film of Webber's, which runs 2 minutes and 20 seconds, was in an extremely fragile state when found. Restoring the print, which the Cinémathèque undertook in collaboration with the Global Vision/CitéLab film laboratory and McGill University, presented many challenges on an ethical as well as a technical front.

For an in-depth analysis of the work and the restoration process undertaken by the Cinémathèque québécoise, go to this page (in French only).
CINEMA, TELEVISION, VIDEO AND NEW MEDIA

The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology
The acquisition of the complete collection of the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, without question the most important of the Cinémathèque’s acquisitions in 2010-2011, firmly establishes the Cinémathèque’s new-media collection. The collection comprises 2691 16-mm films, film masters and video copies, in all formats, and 764 audio items; a library housing 6834 books, monographs, conference proceedings, essays and catalogues, trade publications, 2084 artist, organization and event files; a few pieces of equipment and various artefacts as well as archival holdings.

Certain items in this collection may also be consulted online, including:
- The periodical Radical Software (1970-1974)
- Steina et Woody Vasulka : de la vidéo instrumentale
- 9 Evenings of Theatre and Engineering, by Clarisse Bardiot
- E-art : Art contemporain et nouvelles technologies
- Ce qui reste des images du futur, by Viva Paci
- La collection de musique électro-acoustique latino-américaine, by Ricardo Dal Farra
- La collection Sonia Landy Sheridan
For more information, please visit the section of our online collections.
RELATING TO CINEMA, TELEVISION, VIDEO AND NEW MEDIA

The Kodascope Library

The Library Kodascope projector cabinet comprises a Kodascope Model B projector affixed to a 360-degree rotating stand that sits atop an Art Deco-style case in walnut veneer; the cabinet serves as both a storage case and pedestal for the projector. The cabinet also comes with several accessories: a Bell & Howell Filmo Model D camera, a movable screen, an instruction manual as well as a few movies. The projector and accessories were acquired in 1987 by Paul Maréchal, who donated them to the Cinémathèque québécoise in 2010. Mr. Maréchal had originally purchased the item from the estate of gallery owner Gilles Corbeil (1920-1986). The cabinet and projector had most likely been purchased by the latter’s father, a businessman, at the beginning of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the purchase standing as a testament to the opulent lifestyle of this wealthy French-Canadian family from Outremont. Not only does the object supplement the Cinémathèque’s collection, this rare item—whose style and esthetic quality as a piece of furniture would alone have justified its acquisition by a collection specialized in decorative arts—is historically significant because it testifies to a time, from 1920 to 1930, when wealthy North Americans were consumers of cinema in their private, domestic spaces.

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