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>Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 19:54:07 -1000
>To:H-FILM Film History discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
>From:[log in to unmask] (edwin jahiel)
>Subject:Re: Query: May 28 as day for an international celebration of cinema
>
>>From:   IN%"[log in to unmask]" 26-JAN-1995 20:19:21.48
>>
>>A colleague in the States says that he has seen an Associated Press story
>>that indicates that 28 May, 1995 has been designated the day for an
>>International Celebration of Cinema.  Does anyone know about this?  Why 28
>>May?
>>Sincerely,
>>Bruce Krajewski
>>
>>
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>>  Bruce Krajewski
>>  [log in to unmask]
>>  Laurentian University
>>  Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6
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>March 1995 would the centenary of the Lumiere's first projection and
>December 95, of their first showing to a paying public. So why May 28?
>
>A guess. Because of Presidential Elections in France, the Cannes Festival
>that starts normally around May 10 or so, will start around the 17th of
>May. It lasts approx. 11 days, so that May 28 would coincide with the
>finale, awards, and all that. Clever, esp. if, as I can re-guess, the
>Cannes organizers and the Ministry of Culture and the French Govt. in
>general -- all thriving in patriotic symbiosis -- got together for this
>coup.
>
>If only my friends or colleagues in France could be convinced that e-mail
>and internet are immensely superior to the vaunted Minitel (which did
>steal a march on all other nations, true) I'd have a terrific pipeline to
>people who know the precise answer to this and other items.
>
>I'll forward this to Screen-L where Klaud Eder (in Germany) the Sec'y
>General of FIPRESCI, may see it and give us the answer that he doubtless
>has.
>
 
Edwin Jahiel, Cinema Studies, University of Illinois
 
 
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