A footage sequence of Miles Davis thought to be lost has just been retrieved from INA's archives. We can see the famous trumpet player with his quintet performing live on a French TV show on December 25, 1957. These outstanding images just got scanned in HD (see video below) from the original 16 mm film. They were filmed only a few days after the quintet recorded the soundtrack of the film Elevator to the Gallows by Louis Malle.
Miles Davis Quintet footage found 62 years later
Selection of clips
Miles Davis and his quintet
- First broadcast date: wednesday 25/12/1957
Miles Davis "Elevator for the scaffold"
- Programme title: Cinépanorama
- First broadcast date: thursday 19/12/1957
Miles Davis arrives in Paris
- Programme title: JT 19H15
- First broadcast date: thursday 25/07/1963
Miles Davis "I Fall in Love Too Easily"
- Programme title: Festival de jazz d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins
- First broadcast date: monday 28/07/1969
Miles Davis "Directions"
- Programme title: Festival de jazz d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins
- First broadcast date: monday 28/07/1969
Miles Davis "Spanish Key"
- Programme title: Festival de jazz d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins
- First broadcast date: monday 28/07/1969
Miles Davis at the Palais des Congrès
- Programme title: Inter actualités de 07H30
- First broadcast date: tuesday 01/11/1983
Quiet days in Stockholm
- Programme title: Black and blue
- First broadcast date: friday 11/11/1983
Miles Davis at the Antibes Juan-Les-Pins Jazz Festival
- Programme title: A2 édition de la nuit
- First broadcast date: monday 22/07/1985
Miles Davis Portrait
- Programme title: 19/20 2EME
- First broadcast date: wednesday 16/07/1986
Miles black on white
- Programme title: Les enfants du rock
- First broadcast date: saturday 01/11/1986
Miles Davis
- Programme title: Antenne 2 Le Journal de 20H
- First broadcast date: tuesday 04/11/1986
Miles Davis Plateau
- Programme title: Antenne 2 Midi
- First broadcast date: saturday 11/07/1987
Miles Davis
- Programme title: A2 Journal de la nuit
- First broadcast date: tuesday 05/07/1988
Miles DAVIS "Time after time"
- Programme title: Quarante degrés à l'ombre de la Trois
- First broadcast date: friday 15/07/1988
Miles Davis on his career
- First broadcast date: wednesday 25/07/1990
Explanations by Miles DAVIS
- First broadcast date: wednesday 25/07/1990
Explanations by Miles DAVIS
- First broadcast date: wednesday 25/07/1990
Miles DAVIS: theme not identified
- First broadcast date: wednesday 25/07/1990
Miles DAVIS: theme not identified
- First broadcast date: wednesday 25/07/1990
Miles DAVIS: theme not identified
- First broadcast date: wednesday 25/07/1990
Jazz in Vienna: Miles Davis
- First broadcast date: tuesday 02/07/1991
Miles Davis
- Programme title: A2 Le Journal de 13H
- First broadcast date: tuesday 16/07/1991
Miles Davis "Sanctuary"
- Programme title: Festival de jazz d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins
- First broadcast date: friday 25/07/1969
Miles Davis "Milestones"
- Programme title: Festival de jazz d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins
- First broadcast date: friday 25/07/1969
Miles Davis "Footprints"
- Programme title: Festival de jazz d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins
- First broadcast date: friday 25/07/1969
Miles Davis "'Round midnight"
- Programme title: Festival de jazz d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins
- First broadcast date: friday 25/07/1969
Miles Davis "Miles runs the Voodoo Down"
- Programme title: Festival de jazz d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins
- First broadcast date: friday 25/07/1969
Miles Davis "It’s about time"
- Programme title: Festival de jazz d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins
- First broadcast date: friday 25/07/1969
Miles Davis Quintet
- Programme title: Festival de jazz d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins
- First broadcast date: monday 28/07/1969
Miles Davis "Masqualero"
- Programme title: Festival de jazz d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins
- First broadcast date: monday 28/07/1969
Miles Davis "Nefertiti"
- Programme title: Festival de jazz d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins
- First broadcast date: monday 28/07/1969
Miles Davis
- Programme title: Jazz festival Newport à Paris
- First broadcast date: monday 03/11/1969
Miles Davis to Pleyel
- Programme title: Midi magazine
- First broadcast date: wednesday 05/11/1969
Phil woods and Miles Davis
- Programme title: Jazz harmonie
- First broadcast date: sunday 23/11/1969
MILES DAVIS
- Programme title: JT 20H
- First broadcast date: wednesday 27/10/1971
Newport Festival in Paris: Miles Davis
- Programme title: Jazz session
- First broadcast date: saturday 18/03/1972
In concert. MILES DAVIS with drummer, guitar b...
- Programme title: Jazz session
- First broadcast date: saturday 18/03/1972
In concert, Festival "Newport à Paris". MILES D...
- Programme title: Jazz session
- First broadcast date: saturday 18/03/1972
MILES DAVIS
- Programme title: JT NUIT
- First broadcast date: saturday 21/07/1973
Miles Davis: Part Two
- Programme title: Jazz festival Newport à Paris
- First broadcast date: wednesday 31/07/1974
Miles Davis: Opening Act
- Programme title: Jazz festival Newport à Paris
- First broadcast date: saturday 19/10/1974
Miles DAVIS
- Programme title: Jazz festival Newport à Paris
- First broadcast date: wednesday 01/01/1975
Miles Davis and his orchestra in Juan-les-Pins
- First broadcast date: sunday 01/01/1984
25th International Jazz Festival in Antibes 1984: Miles Davis and his orchestra
- Programme title: Jazz à Juan
- First broadcast date: friday 20/07/1984
Jazz in Juan les Pins: Miles Davis
- Programme title: Rock jazz
- First broadcast date: wednesday 19/09/1984
Miles Davis about his audience
- Programme title: Les enfants du rock
- First broadcast date: saturday 01/11/1986
Miles Davis on his style and Ferrari
- Programme title: Les enfants du rock
- First broadcast date: saturday 01/11/1986
Miles Davis about the arrangements of "Tutu"
- Programme title: Les enfants du rock
- First broadcast date: saturday 01/11/1986
Miles Davis and the right tempo
- Programme title: Les enfants du rock
- First broadcast date: saturday 01/11/1986
Miles Davis on the specificity of his sound
- Programme title: Les enfants du rock
- First broadcast date: saturday 01/11/1986
Miles Davis on trumpet learning
- Programme title: Les enfants du rock
- First broadcast date: saturday 01/11/1986
Miles Davis on contact with the instrument
- Programme title: Les enfants du rock
- First broadcast date: saturday 01/11/1986
Miles Davis and creativity in music
- Programme title: Les enfants du rock
- First broadcast date: saturday 01/11/1986
Miles Davis on Prince, James Brown, Marvin Gaye and Jimi Hendrix
- Programme title: Les enfants du rock
- First broadcast date: saturday 01/11/1986
Miles DAVIS at the zenith
- Programme title: TF1 Vingt heures
- First broadcast date: wednesday 05/11/1986
Interview with MILES DAVIS in close-up
- Programme title: Cent ans de jazz
- First broadcast date: friday 18/12/1987
Interview of MILES DAVIS in close-up with moon...
- Programme title: Cent ans de jazz
- First broadcast date: friday 18/12/1987
Interview of MILES DAVIS in close-up with moon...
- Programme title: Cent ans de jazz
- First broadcast date: friday 18/12/1987