Air disaster: a Concorde plane crashed in Gonesse. How could such a disaster happen? Some witnesses report that one of the Concorde’s engines caught fire moments after take-off. Comment on images of the airport of Roissy, infographics and aerial views of the Concorde crushed on the ground in Gonesse.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, appuyé par d'autres députés, vient de prendre l'initiative d'une proposition de loi visant à instaurer le quinquennat et à limiter à deux le nombre de mandats présidentiels. Réactions de Lionel Jospin (PS), François Hollande (PS), Jean-Louis Debré (RPR), et Philippe Douste-Blazy (UDF).
Members of the support committees to F. MITTERRAND brought together by the candidate: F. MITTERRAND passes among the guests to shake their hand. By the way, M. AMONT, M. PICCOLI, D. GELIN, etc.Interview with M. PICCOLI and M.P. BELLE: the reason for their support to MITTERRAND. Extract from the speech of the socialist candidate: he praises the chair of the support committee, an unemployed mother of two children.
Some plans of the protest called by the C.U.A.R.H.(Homosexual Anti-Repression Emergency Committee). It is then that the election campaign is in full swing to demand the abolition of discriminatory laws and a commitment on this subject of candidates.
Interview with Akram OJJEH, a Saudi businessman who has just bought the liner France. He evokes his motivations and plans for this boat. He refuses to give the purchase price...
Following his resignation from the post of Prime Minister, after only 2 years, for misunderstanding with President Valéry GISCARD D'ESTAING, portrait in archives of Jacques CHIRAC.
As part of the French Football Championship, the AS Saint-Etienne won in Geoffroy-Guichard (2-0) against Sochaux thanks to a double of Dominique Rocheteau.
As Phnom Penh prepares to fall into the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a return to images of Prince Sihanouk’s struggle against the Communists. Commentary on archival images of the prince when he reigned, in exile after March 1970 then in the Cambodian maquis, and archives of Lon Nol, who took power in his place.
Florida is ravaged by a hurricane from the Caribbean Sea with winds of up to 280 km per hour. Commentary on images of leeward palm trees, reversed cars and a fire, consequence of this natural disaster.
Sous Vichy, le 1er Mai a été transformé par le maréchal Pétain en "Saint-Philippe". La CGT appelle donc à un immense défilé, le 1er mai 1945, dans le Paris libéré. Quelques déportés, rescapés des camps, se joignent à la manifestation.
The crowd attends the raising of the colors in front of the Hotel du Parc in the presence of the Marshal Pétain, naked head. The Marshal shakes a few hands in the crowd then appears on the balcony while the song "Marshal, here we are..." He then leaves the Hotel du Parc and leaves by car. Itinerary of the city by car, escorted by motorcyclists. The car then drives along a tree-lined country road. - Three VG of the crowd attending the Colour Raise in front of the Hôtel du Parc - Marshal PETAIN GP, naked head, attending ceremony - Marshal’s AG and part of the crowd during the ceremony - AG of part of the large crowd - Three Marshal’s VG shaking hands - GP of three women, one crying - Two Marshal’s AG shaking hands - PM of a few people - PANO on part of the crowd, some women cheering - Very dense crowd AG difficult to maintain by police - CEO of Marshal PETAIN walking among the crowd - PANO on very dense crowd - Marshal’s AG greeting the crowd from a balcony - Two VG, PL, very dense crowd - PANO on the Marshal leaving the Hotel - CEO of the Marshal and his wife shaking hands and then getting into a car - Very dense crowd AG - Two VG’s of the car carrying the Marshal rolling down a crowded Vichy street on the sidewalks - PANO on the riding marshal’s car, escorted by motorcyclists on a treed country road.
Offensive of the Tet in northern Vietnam, in Hué and Saigon and its Chinese suburb, Cholon. Fighting rages. Commentary on images of burning dwellings, Vietnamese refugees, soldiers shooting guns from helicopters and taking prisoners, President Lyndon Johnson came to greet soldiers preparing to leave for Vietnam, battles taking place next to the citadel of Hué and Vietnamese victims.
In Vietnam, the American intervention continues to intensify. In addition to the bombings in North Vietnam, the American army engaged in a major operation in the Mekong Delta, in the south of the country (the Battle of Can Tho). Commentary on images of American bombers, ships on mission on the Mekong, soldiers landing on a river bank, a Buddhist demonstration in Saigon and aerial bombing.
Johnny HALLYDAY and Sylvie VARTAN were married at the town hall and in the church of Loconville in the Oise, submerged by a crowd of badauds and journalists. The singer, on military service in Germany, got special permission for this event.