The old wooden chest had been in the family for a century, moved from the attic to the barn, from the barn to the garage. Nobody knew it contained a treasure trove of French cinema.
Nobody until Bill McFarland, a retired teacher and great-grandson of a projectionist from rural Pennsylvania, US, discovered some old films that_"seemed too precious to throw away",_ he recalls. But the septuagenarian "had no idea what they represented" or how to view them.
