The machine at Marly, which supplied water to Versailles and the ponds in the park, was condemned. Its disappearance brings to mind the first machine, whose memory is linked to the Château de Modave, in the Ardennes, 50 metres above the banks of the Houyaux, and for which a lot of water was needed. A … Continued
“Where are you taking me?” “I propose a walk through the gardens”. The film will be this walk, full of fantasy, by a young couple, taking place in space and time. In the setting of some of our most beautiful parks, or gardens richest in memories, our walkers play hide-and-seek with time, dressing up for … Continued
For many, the church of St Pierre d’Aulnay in Saintonge is the most successful masterpiece of Romanesque art in France. It was one of the main stops on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. We look at it as the pilgrims did in days gone by. Their joys, their sorrows, the legends they told each … Continued
This film was made on the premises of the French Polar Expeditions in the presence of Paul-Émile VICTOR, expedition leader GUIARD, Mario MARRET, the doctor and members of the Expeditions. In the course of this off-the-cuff discussion, various problems encountered during the expeditions were raised, such as sexuality and homosexuality, relations between Paris and the … Continued
Like every year for the past eight centuries, huge crowds flock to Notre-Dame de Paris to hear the three Masses of the Nativity, and many are unable to find a seat in the nave. It is for them that television makes a discreet entrance into the choir to launch into space the images of this … Continued
Prisoner of war… An ordeal as old as the world, shared by millions of men during the Second World War, a long complaint of which countless accounts, thousands of sketches, sometimes photos, remain today, but also a film ‘shot’ under the cloak by Frenchmen in a German camp, a single and unique film, made despite … Continued
Sailing seems like a game to the uninitiated. What could be simpler than holding the helm and letting yourself go with the wind and the waves? This film, shot in a water sports centre, ends with a forced swim that required a serious apprenticeship.
Discover old and modern houses, mansions, tenement houses, blocks of flats and decrepit old houses as you wander through the neighbourhoods. Compare the charm of the old buildings and the suburbs with the graceless modern urbanisation.
In the heart of the Mediterranean, Mount Athos has for ten centuries sheltered monks and their secrets behind the thick walls of its monasteries. On its slopes cling the villages of monks who preferred the rustic life to that of the rule. Only a winch connects the world to this cliff of silence, whose entrance … Continued
Pierre and Marie Curie’s work, which led to the discovery of radium and radioactivity, began with a photographic plate that was inexplicably obscured. The greatest discovery of the century was above all the work of a couple of genius researchers, who owed their success to a tenacious will, more than to the paltry means at … Continued