![]() ![]() He later served as a reconnaissance pilot after receiving a bullet in the leg. When World War I broke out in August 1914, Renoir joined the French cavalry. Renoir would often be featured in many of his father's paintings and due to his father's success, he was schooled at fashionable boarding houses. She taught me to detest the cliché." Renard also introduced him to the new invention of motion pictures taking him to see his first film as a young boy. Writing in his 1974 memoirs, Renoir said, "She taught me to see the face behind the mask and the fraud behind the flourishes. Renard introduced him to Guignol puppet shows in Montmartre, France, which would influence his film career. Renoir was the son of French impressionist painter Pierre Auguste-Renior but was mainly raised by Gabrielle Renard, his nanny and mother's cousin. ![]() It was rediscovered while the Cinematheque was transferring their nitrate negatives to the French Film Archives. It would be returned to France in the 1960's, but would remain undiscovered until the 1990's, because many thought it was gone. After the war the Reichsfilmarchiv happened to be in the Russian zone where the negative was then sent to Moscow. Then it was revealed that the original negative was shipped back to Berlin and was stored at the Reichsfilmarchiv. The original nitrate film negative was thought to have been destroyed in an Allied air raid and lost but prints of the film were rediscovered in 1958 and rereleased in the early 1960's. Once France fell to Nazi Germany, the Nazis seized the prints and all negatives of the film. Even Renoir's own country banned the film in 1940 for as long as the war should last. Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had declared Jean Renoir's 1937 film "Grand Illusion" to be "Cinematic Public Enemy #1" and ordered all prints to be confiscated and destroyed. ![]()
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