A different kind of collective memory was considered in "Toute la mémoire du monde" (1956), in which the seemingly endless spaces and bibliographic riches of the Bibliothèque nationale were explored in another compendium of long travelling shots. In 1958 Resnais undertook a commission from the Pechiney company to make short film, in colour and wide-screen, extolling the merits of plastics, "Le Chant du styrène". Poetry was brought to the project, literally, by Raymond Queneau who wrote the narration for the film in rhyming couplets.