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Langlois saved many films, like [Feyder’s] L’Image, in extremis: their producers had already directed the labs to destroy some of these precious negatives. A few days later they would have been gone forever, melted down for their celluloid: “The comb you use every morning might well have been made from a fragment of Broken Blossoms, The Cheat, or Coeur Fidèle.
Henri Langlois [Wikipedia fr], one of the founders of the Cinémathèque Française.
[quote is from Richard Roud’s biography A Passion for Films]