----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >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 >> >> >>----------------------------- >> Bruce Krajewski >> [log in to unmask] >> Laurentian University >> Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6 >>----------------------------- >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 " Le mauvais gout mene au crime (Stendhal)"