The Harry Ransom Center kicks off the Archives Film Series with François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 (1966) on Monday, September 22, at 7 p.m.

Starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie, the film is adapted from Ray Bradbury’s novel of the same name. The story chronicles the life of firefighter Guy Montag, who has been tasked with burning books to protect society from their contents.

The film series is held in conjunction with the exhibition The Mystique of the Archive. Drawing from the Harry Ransom Center’s extensive modern literature collections—

Julian Barnes, Don DeLillo, Anne Sexton, and many others—the exhibition describes what constitutes an archive, documents the evolution of creative works, and maps an archive’s journey from the writer’s home to the scholar’s desk.

Seating is free, but limited.

Mark your calendar for other screenings in the series: Possession on October 13, The Lost Moment on November 24, and The Name of the Rose on December 15.