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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like first of all to thank Mr Hegyi for the work he has done and for the open approach he has demonstrated at our working meetings, which has led to a very complete and well-argued final wording of this recommendation within a very short space of time. I am also pleased that it has been possible to reach a compromise with the Council, thanks to which, I hope, this report may be adopted at first reading, thus allowing European film heritage to benefit as soon as possible from all the guarantees that this recommendation is going to provide. I am extremely pleased that all the amendments I had tabled have been supported and adopted both by my colleagues in the Committee on Culture and Education and by those from the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe; I would like to thank them very warmly for their confidence.
This recommendation will undoubtedly give new impetus to European film production and help to drive the development of cinema in the new Member States. I have followed the drawing up of this document very closely, which is of very special interest to us, the French, since we invented the cinema. The Lumière brothers, in Lyon, were the first to perfect the technique of cinema and they inspired its documentary strand.
A few decades later, Georges Méliès invented the cinema of spectacle and of the imagination. All of the films by the Lumière brothers have been restored by the French Film Archive and have recently been released on DVD. This is why I am convinced that, in order to ensure that nothing is lost, we should emphasise the requirement for the original prints of films to be deposited with a European body and for a database to be created at the European Audiovisual Observatory. What a joy it would be to be able, in that way, to relive the magic moments of L’Arroseur Arrosé; that is what I had in mind when I was working on this Council recommendation. I would also like to stress the role played by film criticism, a French speciality whose writings have encouraged works to be preserved. I am thinking of André Bazin, François Truffaut and Henri Langlois. I am therefore entirely satisfied with this report, which I would ask you to support. Cinema deserves a heritage policy, in the same way as buildings, pictures or books. The same goes for preserving that heritage, piecing together that history and making the link between the past and the future."@en1
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