"Zero for Conduct" was banned by the French government until after the war, and "L'Atalante" was mutilated by its distributor. By this point, Vigo was too ill to strenuously fight the matter. Both films have outlived their detractors; "L'Atalante" was chosen as the 10th-greatest film of all time in "Sight & Sound'"s 1962 poll, and as the 6th-best in its 1992 poll. In the late 1980s a 1934 copy of "L'Atalante" was found in the British National Film and Television Archive, and became a key element in the restoration of the film to its original version.