Set of seven film documents shot just after the signature of the Blum-Byrnes agreements, between the French and American governments, authorizing the wider release of American films on French territor...
Roger Gillet (1916-1974), a mechanical modeler by training and later head of a carpentry-cabinetmaking company, was a member of the PCF in the 20th arrondissement of Paris // In the mid-1950s, he took...
The battles of the dockers during the winter and early spring of 1950, filmed in Rouen, Saint-Nazaire, La Pallice (La Rochelle), Marseille and Bordeaux. After evoking the precariousness, the difficult...
Work at sea on board the Franc-Tireur, a Bigouden trawler based in Concarneau. This documentary describes the hardships of the fishermen "20 days at sea, 2 days on land": nets that are thrown out acco...
This film document shows a ceremony of homage to the resistance fighters of the pharmaceutical laboratory Orga in Avignon, during which a memorial is unveiled. First, the officials (a prefect and a ge...
The funeral, in Aubervilliers, on June 13, 1952, of Hocine Belaïd, a municipal worker mortally injured during the portest against Ridgway and who died on May 28, 1952. In front of the coffin with a h...
In Limousin, the action of the farmers against the low prices of meat for sale. After footage of the work on the fields and farms in winter (collecting leaves for bedding, ploughing, cutting wood, mil...
This anonymous film consists of simple silent and partial views of the tribute that was paid to Stalin in Paris, after his death (March 8, 1953). Headquarters of the Central Committee (CC) of the Fren...