In her memoir, dictated during the last years of her life, Lotte Eisner recalls with a certain pride a high point of her work as collector and archivist at the Cinémathèque française.At the time when I began collecting, film culture was still in pieces as a result of the war and there was absolutely no understanding of it in West Germany … Consequently, designers and architects, who, I think, are as important as the director, were forgotten … Thus, I drove around with a good conscience and I restored the reputation of old sketches and pieces of sets from what had become a disregarded art.1
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%A Eisner, Julia
%D 2021
%J Screen
%K eisner film-criticism germany
%N 3
%P 418-423
%R 10.1093/screen/hjab037
%T Lotte Eisner: Pioneer of the Art and Craft of Collecting
%U https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjab037
%V 62
%X In her memoir, dictated during the last years of her life, Lotte Eisner recalls with a certain pride a high point of her work as collector and archivist at the Cinémathèque française.At the time when I began collecting, film culture was still in pieces as a result of the war and there was absolutely no understanding of it in West Germany … Consequently, designers and architects, who, I think, are as important as the director, were forgotten … Thus, I drove around with a good conscience and I restored the reputation of old sketches and pieces of sets from what had become a disregarded art.1
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abstract = {{In her memoir, dictated during the last years of her life, Lotte Eisner recalls with a certain pride a high point of her work as collector and archivist at the Cinémathèque française.At the time when I began collecting, film culture was still in pieces as a result of the war and there was absolutely no understanding of it in West Germany […] Consequently, designers and architects, who, I think, are as important as the director, were forgotten […] Thus, I drove around with a good conscience and I restored the reputation of old sketches and pieces of sets from what had become a disregarded art.1}},
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title = {{Lotte Eisner: Pioneer of the Art and Craft of Collecting}},
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volume = 62,
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