Jacques Ledoux

Jacques Ledoux, the formidable curator of the Cinémathèque royale de Belgique for four full decades (1948-1988), is one of the key figures in the history of the film archive movement. As Secretary-General of FIAF from 1961 (following the departure of Henri Langlois' Cinémathèque française) to 1978, he was the Federation's undisputed leader during two decades of steady growth film archive community and professionalisation of the field. He initiated a number of important international projects, such as a unified FIAF catalogue of silent feature films which would later be integrated into the Treasures from the Film Archives database. Ledoux last attended a FIAF Congress in 1987, in West Berlin. He died of a long illness on 6 June 1988, just as the 1988 FIAF Congress had drawn to its close in Paris.

Billard, Pierre, "Adieu à Jacques Ledoux", Bulletin FIAF, Issue 37, September 1988, pp. 3-4

Centenary of Jacques Ledoux's Birth: Jacques Ledoux and FIAF, an Online Exhibition, Brussels: FIAF, 2021

Gautier, Catherine,  "Le secret magnifique de Jacques Ledoux", Bulletin FIAF, Issue 37, September 1988, pp. 1-3

Head, Anne, A true love for cinema : Jacques Ledoux, curator of the Royal Film Archive and Film Museum of Belgium, 1948-1988, The Hague : Universitaire Pers Rotterdam, 1988

Jacques Ledoux, Brussels: Cinémathèque royale de Belgique, 2021

Mazzanti, Nicola, "The Cinémathèque royale de Belgique: the first 75 years... and the next", Journal of Film Preservation, Issue 89, November 2013, pp. 82-89

Thompson, Kristin & Bordwell, David, "Jacques Ledoux: 1921-88", in Cinema Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Spring, 1989), pp. 4-7