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HISTOIRE DE LA TELEVISION REGIONALE

De l'ouverture des premières stations régionales dans les années 50, en passant par la création de la 3eme chaine - nationale avec des contributions régionales - et la décentralisation des programmes, ce corpus se propose d'offrir une vision macroscopique de la télévision régionale. Il est constitué d'archives des fonds régionaux et nationaux.

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LES PIONNIERES DE LA TELEVISION

Journalistes, réalisatrices, productrices..., des femmes ont contribué à l'essor de la télévision dès l'origine, au sein d'équipes encore très masculines. Certaines sont restées dans l'ombre, d'autres étaient connues du grand public. Découvrez ou redécouvrez quelques unes de ces pionnières au gré de leurs passages à l'antenne.

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24 HEURES DE LA TELE

This collection is made up of films edited from television archives for an annual INA event during French heritage days.

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CENSORSHIP ON TELEVISION

This collection covers the darker side of television history: the programmes, footage and people censored for political, religious or moral reasons from RTF to the present day. Only the programmes which INA has in its archives are featured here.

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FAMOUS ONE-LINERS ON TELEVISION

A selection of one-liners that have left their mark on French television and remained in the collective memory. The collection features remarks made by key politicians, such as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Edouard Balladur, and TV presenter Roger Gicquel.

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FIRST TELEVISION APPEARANCES

This collection contains a host of first appearances on television of French celebrities from the world of television, entertainment, the arts, politics and sports.

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FRENCH TV'S UNKNOWN FOOTAGE

This collection, nicknamed "Television Hell" in French, groups footage not included in available archives from the 1950s through the 1980s. There were several reasons for this, including censorship, legal aspects and physical defects. Often the reasons are still not known today. This collection contains programmes for which INA has the footage.

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INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L'AUDIOVISUEL (INA)

Founded in 1975, its mission is to collect, preserve, restore and communicate France's radio and television archives. This multimedia collection is dedicated to the the history and the activities of the National Audiovisual Institute.

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METEOROLOGY

A collection of programmes and extracts tracing the evolution of weather reports and forecasts on the television.

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OLD CHESTNUTS

The media repeatedly deal with a number of topics such as the new school year, the holidays, putting the clocks forward or back, the weather, diets, and the like. This collection uses some superb images, often unusual or humorous to illustrate these recurrent themes.

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PROGRAMME CREDITS

French television seen through the credits of its more famous programmes.

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SEX AND TELEVISION

This collection looks at the ways television has dealt with sexuality, eroticism and pornography. From some very chaste beginnings when television mainly talked about sexuality in debate programmes (1972), or evoked it in bawdy or erotic songs (as of 1959), treatment became far freer as of 1975-80, only to hold back again from 2000 onwards.

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TELEVISION ADVERTISING

This collection traces the history of advertising on television, from the very first programme sponsorship to the current day, the introduction of brand advertising in 1968, and developments up to the present day.

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TELEVISION SEEN BY THE TELEVISION

From its earliest years television was a favourite topics for journalists, keen to show what happened in the wings and to meet the people behind television and their viewers.

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THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION

An overview of the people, events and techniques that make up the history of French television. This collection is not yet complete and changes and additions are still being made.

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THE ORTF RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

This collection covers the programmes produced or coproduced by the ORTF's Research department headed by Pierre Schaeffer between 1960 and 1975. In addition to now well-known programmes such as "Banc d'essai" and "Un certain regard" are a number of hitherto unseen gems, isolated productions, art-house collections and educational montages.

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TV CHANNEL VISUAL AND SOUND IDENTITY

Test cards, logos, clocks and graphics identify television programmes and channels. This collection provides an overview of these visual and sound identities, from the earliest to the most recent.

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UNEXPECTED INCIDENTS ON TELEVISION

A selection of interesting, amusing or moving images that are regularly updated by new offerings following documentary research in INA archives.

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UNUSUAL VARIETY SHOWS

Many an actor, journalist, sports man or woman and politician has tried - unsuccessfully - to sing. This collection shows numerous attempts worth watching, above all, for the difference between the performance and the performer's public image.

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VARIETY SHOW DUETS

A non-comprehensive collection of duets, well known or unexpected, in the digitised archives.

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WOMEN TELEVISION ANNOUNCERS

The first woman television announcer appeared on French television screens in 1934, but it wasn't until 1949 that Jacqueline Joubert "officialised" the profession. Since 1992, there have been no announcers as such on French television.

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