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Jacques Ledoux

Jacques Ledoux was a Polish-born Belgian cinema specialist, the first curator of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium from 1948 to 1988 and the founder of the Cinema Museum in Brussels in 1962. He was born in Warsaw and died in Brussels.

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Jacques Ledoux (1921 – 6 June 1988) was a Polish-born Belgian cinema specialist, the first curator of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium (Cinémathèque royale de Belgique) from 1948 to 19881 and the founder of the Cinema Museum in Brussels (Musée du cinéma de Bruxelles) in 1962.2 He was born in Warsaw and died in Brussels.

Awards and honors

Ledoux received the Erasmus Prize, a Dutch award for contributions to art in 1988.3

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References

  1. "About us - CINEMATEK". www.cinematek.be. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  2. Thompson, Kristin; Bordwell, David (1989). "Jacques Ledoux: 1921-88". Cinema Journal. 28 (3): 4–7. ISSN 0009-7101.
  3. "Erasmusprijswinnaars". Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
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