Check out the background essay at The Playlist Jose Gallegos wrote to accompany his affectionate video tribute to French film of the 1960s. What a great phrase: “la naissance de l’auteur.” The noise at the beginning and end of the montage is a wonderful touch — that tangible buzz of anticipation on the soundtrack as a reel of film threads through a projector. With today’s restored and cleaned-up audio on digital disc, had almost forgotten what excitement that raw hum of pops and crackles always promised.