Au micro de Marc LEGRAS, Andrée (Daidy) DAVIS-BOYER raconte cette période où elle réalisa 800 scopitones, ancêtres des vidéoclips, dans les années 60. Les premiers à en faire furent Alexandre Tarta et Claude Lelouch. Elle évoque les tournages : peu de moyens financiers donc des idées, la durée. Ils essayaient de faire des tournages dans des contextes qui correspondaient au sujet de la chanson.
Speaking to Marc LEGRAS, Andrée (Daidy) DAVIS-BOYER recounts the period when she made 800 scopitones, the ancestors of music videos, in the 1960s. Her first scopitones were Annie Cordy and Franck Alamo. She was already used to filming the varieties for television shows. It evokes the period of the yeye with notably the beginnings of Johnny Hallyday. She tells brief anecdotes about the scopitones she made with Michel Delpech: "White is white" and "Pour un flirt".
On the set of the program "Platinum 45", the presenter JACKY interview on a shifted mode the young singer Axel BAUER. Right now he’s listening to classical music, Billy Idol and Prince. It evokes Jean-Baptiste Mondino who made the music video of his song "Cargo".
Noël MAMERE receives Axel BAUER on board. He speaks of his childhood bathed in jazz music because his father is a musician of jazz, bands he loved during his adolescence, composers, and who today influenced his music.
In 1983 on the set of the television news Noël MAMERE received Jean-Louis AUBERT and Richard KOLINKA from the group Téléphone. Jean-Louis AUBERT talks about the look-alikes and the shooting of the video "It’s really you". For him, the music video is part of the record and promotion, especially with regional television during the tour.
Antoine DE CAUNES interviews Paul MC CARTNEY in English (not translated) about his interest in video clips. Antoine DE CAUNES: "Do you think the music video has become an art form?" Paul MC CARTNEY: "That’s interesting. Short films have always been interesting for directors, but nobody wants them. Cinemas don’t want short films like they used to. When I was a kid I went to the movies and there was an animated movie, trailers for the next week’s movie, short films, news and then the movie. Now we go to the movies just for the movie, maybe with a few commercials before. Nobody wants short films, but it’s always been a good art form. It doesn’t have to be 90 minutes; everything doesn’t take that long to explain. I think it’s a great opportunity for people who are interested in this form of film to afford it, you know, and it also means that people from the musical world are crossing paths with people from the film world, it’s good that people like me can direct things, while I don’t want to direct a feature film, I don’t think I’d be experienced enough but I’m sure I could put my ideas into it. So I think it’s a good exchange and there are some interesting things going on like computer animation, like commercials, a great opportunity to make new effects, new things. Antoine DE CAUNES: "But many musicians also become actors?" PMC: "Yes, sometimes some of them are good, you know, like Phil COLLINS, who was a child actor. In fact Phil COLLINS was in the first Beatles film "A hard day’s night" in England, "Four Boys in the Wind". ADC: "What was he doing in it?" PMC: "He was one of the children in the audience. I said to him, "I remember you well: you were the fourth from the right"
Claude LELOUCH explique qu'il a fait 200 scopitones en une année, parce qu'il avait besoin d'argent. Ils avaient peu de moyen. C'était une bonne école, qui forçait à avoir de l'imagination. Le fort rendement demandé amoindrissait la qualité mais c'était amusant.
the presenters of the program "Les Enfants du rock", Philippe MANOEUVRE and Jean-Pierre DIONNET give their opinion on the group Duran Duran and on their clips. Philippe MANOEUVRE loves the band he quotes: "Music videos are to our career what stereophony was to that of Pink Floyd". He thinks "The music video is an advertisement for the album". On the other hand Jean-Pierre DIONNET does not like Duran Duran: "This is the climax of the music video, that is to say that the clips are great, the songs are lame..." The two friends agree that it was Patrice BLANC-FRANCARD who put the music video at the center of rock shows.
The music videos have won over some Parisian shops: Laurent BISMUTH, head of a clothing store at Les Halles, believes that the clips attract customers and make them happy. Rocky, hairdresser at "Rock hair" finds that it gives an atmosphere in his living room and that it allows customers to wait in optimal conditions. A client is happy to be at home.
The presenters of the program "Les Enfants du rock", Philippe MANOEUVRE and Jean-Pierre DIONNET give their opinion on the American music channel MTV which broadcasts clips almost continuously. According to them it is a kind of supermarket of music videos and the dream for music lovers. They talk about the production of French music videos which is insufficient, because according to them record companies do not think to make music videos to sell records as in the United States. They like some French clips like those of Philippe KROOTCHEY Richard GOTAINER or TELEPHONE. According to them it is not a question of money or creativity on the part of the directors but the problem of record companies that are lagging behind.
Françoise HARDY, interviewed by Pierre BOUTEILLER, tells the scopitone shoots under the direction of Claude LELOUCH, in particular that of "Tous les garçons et les filles"
Meeting with the director Marc CARO on the shooting of the video of the Indochina group "The Tzars". He talks about his meeting with the Indochina group to make the video, the constitution of the team to shoot this animation clip. Images of the video shoot.
Mylène FARMER talks about the song "Libertine" whose clip that recalls the universe of the film "Barry Lyndon" was directed by Laurent BOUTONNAT, also present on the set. The singer explains that the clip that lasts 11 minutes can be shown in cinemas. According to her, the clip is inseparable from the song.
On the occasion of the "1er festival international du vidéoclp de Port Grimaud", Chantal LAUBY realizes a microtrottoir with passers-by and asks them what they think of video clips.