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French TV News Archives Online

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I mentioned the following a long time ago, but the site has a new address and an easier-to-use Flash-based format, so here it goes:

You can watch old French TV newscast online, in their entirety and free of charge, courtesy of France's national TV archives. Even if you don't understand a word of French, this online service is worth checking out, since it shows the progression of broadcast technology and styles used from the 1970s until today.

Currently available are:

* Radio newscats from 1961 to 1969.

* Television newscasts for some dates in 1973 and 1974.

* All TV newscasts between February 1976 and 2008 from one of the "big three" French networks (but you can't choose which one).

Just go to...

http://www.ina.fr/communaute/journal

...and select the date in a dd/mm/yyyy format.


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For instance, here's what the evening news on France's Antenne 2 network looked like in 1978:

http://www.ina.fr/video/CAB04018847/ja2-20h-emission-du-07-juillet-1978.fr.html


I hope you have as much with this as I did!
 
Check out some of their news sets and bumpers from the 70's. It's like "Yellow Submarine".

Kind of disappointed though they don't have video archives up demonstrating the old
819 line B/W transmission system (radio only for the 60's)
 
Also, anyone notice on the '70's clips the audio sounded only slightly higher in frequency response (8 kHz, perhaps?) than the 5 kHz telco heard on many pre-1978 network transmissions in other parts of the country outside New York City?
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Kind of disappointed though they don't have video archives up demonstrating the old
819 line B/W transmission system (radio only for the 60's)
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If you're interested in French broadcast technology, this 20-minute "behind the scenes of TV news" documentary (from the same site) has lots of footage of cameras, editing bays, news vans, microwave transmitters, live trucks, etc. used by French TV before 1975:

http://www.ina.fr/media/presse/video/CAF91012923/les-hommes-presses-de-24-heures-sur-la-une.fr.html

I know that it took forever for the first network to switch from 819-line B&W to SECAM (before 1975, only the second and the third networks transmitted in color), but I don't know when they stopped originating their news in 819 lines. It's entirely possible that the technology shown here is 819-line technology since it was shot just before the first network switched to color (the last to do so by a considerable margin).
 
Anchored from New York, here's Antenne 2's evening news from the day following Ronald Reagan's election in 1980:

http://www.ina.fr/video/CAB04012638/ja2-20h-emission-du-5-novembre-1980.fr.html

Here's the news on the day of the Challenger catastrophe:

http://www.ina.fr/video/CAB02048966/ja2-20h-emission-du-28-janvier-1986.fr.html

And from the France 3 network, here's the news from September 11, 2001 (at the time of the evening news in France, the story was still breaking):

http://www.ina.fr/economie-et-socie...04/speciale-attentats-usa-1ere-partie.fr.html
 
wbhist said:
Also, anyone notice on the '70's clips the audio sounded only slightly higher in frequency response (8 kHz, perhaps?) than the 5 kHz telco heard on many pre-1978 network transmissions in other parts of the country outside New York City?
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The French system is one of the few that opted for AM as opposed to FM transmission of sound. They were basically trying to
be as non-compatible as possible in order to protect their own domestic electronics industry. (the cabinet minister who was
responsible for choosing the standard was Francois Mitterand, who would go on to become President)
 
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