Notre-Dame de Paris

Notre-Dame, the iconic cathedral of Paris, is just recovering after it caught fire in the evening of April 15, 2019.

INA offers invaluable material dating back as far as the 1940s that encompasses clips from French television news items, documentaries, and the “Actualités Françaises” (newsreels broadcast in French theaters from the 1940s to the 1960s). Content includes the restauration of the cathedral over time, notable religious celebrations, and the protests that took place inside and on its parvis.

Selection of clips

  • Notre Dame de Paris

  • Programme title: JT 20H
  • Collection: Others
  • First broadcast date: monday 25/11/1963
  • Occupation Notre Dame de Paris

  • Programme title: Actualités régionales Ile de France
  • Collection: FR3 / France 3
  • First broadcast date: monday 01/09/1975
  • St Germain+te deum

  • Programme title: TF1 Actualités 20H
  • Collection: TF1 (State-run until July 1982)
  • First broadcast date: friday 30/05/1980
  • Our lady of Paris is crackling

  • Programme title: Actualités régionales Ile de France
  • Collection: Paris / Ile-de-France
  • First broadcast date: tuesday 29/09/1981
  • The bells of Notre-Dame de Paris

  • Programme title: Actualités régionales Ile de France
  • Collection: Paris / Ile-de-France
  • First broadcast date: wednesday 04/07/1984
  • The Portal of Notre Dame de Paris

  • Programme title: Journal Les Actualités Françaises
  • Collection: Actualités Françaises
  • First broadcast date: wednesday 14/08/1963
  • Notre-Dame de Paris

  • Programme title: Histoires de Paris
  • Collection: RTF / ORTF
  • First broadcast date: saturday 28/01/1967
  • Notre Dame de Paris

  • Programme title: Rond point
  • Collection: RTF / ORTF
  • First broadcast date: saturday 17/06/1972
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