All the World's Memory
1956 · 21 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 1,636 VOTES · DIR. Alain Resnais
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 149 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:00 The makers wish to thank the Bibliothèque Nationale
00:02:45 man is assailed by a fear of being engulfed by this mass of words.
00:04:54 bears witness to the ever-changing world.
00:05:25 Stars, satellites and meteors
00:05:54 PRINTS
00:06:11 those in charge of the treasures it contains catalogue them.
00:06:40 which, over time, have become law.
00:08:21 If a collection is incomplete, it loses its value
00:08:49 Who knows what else may come to light among these pages?
00:09:43 To mark a volume as having entered the library
00:10:37 Once a week the books are sorted
00:11:08 Twenty identification cards are placed in different files
00:13:03 Here is the book in its setting. This ancient store will soon be gone.
00:13:37 It is the still unpublished "Journal of the Gouncourts" manuscript?
00:14:40 Or perhaps...
00:15:01 "The Revelation of St. Severus"?
00:15:20 keeps a constant temperature suitable for paper, leather and parchment.
00:15:58 The books are innoculated.
00:16:27 While this slow battle against death goes on, calls go out.
00:19:24 It is no longer the same book.
00:19:56 in that each is bound to its own distinct business.
00:20:36 will lay the fragments of a single secret end to end
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed149
Dialogue density7.1 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line00:20:36
Production Record
DirectorAlain Resnais
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes1,636