Film in colour, screener in B/W
It was at the end of the southern Belledonne mountain range, at an altitude of 1,650 m, that the Recoin resort of Chamrousse began to be developed in 1948. Given the success of Le Recoin and the constant increase in the number of visitors, the Département de l’Isère decided to build a completely modern sister resort 2 km away on the Roche Béranger mountain pastures. The first stone was laid on 16 July 1961 by Maurice Herzog, Secretary of State for Youth and Sport, and the resort was inaugurated on 23 August 1964. In addition to a vast residential area with hotels, a shopping centre, luxury residences and the sports and cultural facilities of a major modern resort, the Bacha Bouloud mountain centre was built, a group of villages, each consisting of 5 chalets, which, on the principle of part-time teaching, would take children on holiday camps in the summer, climatic classes in the autumn and spring, and snow classes in the winter. Bacha Bouloud, Roche Béranger, Recoin: this threefold success confirms the invention of an original form of joint management: the Chamrousse syndicate, opening up promising prospects for the future.