Au Salon de l'Auto, la journaliste Marie Claude Schultz découvre un gadget futuriste qui permet à l'automobiliste d'améliorer ses trajets en lui donnant des informations diverses sur l'état de la circulation routière dans toute la France.
The Citroën plant in Levallois (92) will close soon. A retrospective on the history and global success of the 2 CV, whose production may well stop in 1992. Comment on factual and archival images.
China is open to foreign investment. The beginning of economic opening is taking place. Many, like France, are interested. Alternation of Chinese working, factory exit and interior of a Chinese workers workshop in trench.
Reportage. Hundreds of artists contributed to the famous silk scarf created by Hermès nearly 70 years ago. New models are imagined every year. Square production plans in Lyon, alternating with the interview with Nadine RABILLOUT, cartoonist and Jennifer KAZANIECKI, Hermès color stove.
For businesses, the introduction of the euro is taking place now. Currency exchange will take place in four months. In many sectors, employee training is active, as is the case in the Relay store, which specializes in selling newspapers at stations or airports. Comments on factual images, client microsidewalk and interviews Réjane DECOFOUR (Head of Operations Roissy 2) and Eric MUSSET (Manager Orly-Ouest store).
Report on the establishment in China of a French company, Axon, specializing in the manufacture of cables. Women workers' wages are 25 times lower than in France, but they claim to be satisfied with their working conditions, better than in Chinese companies. Axon justifies this establishment by the need to be there to penetrate the Asian market. Axon’s French engineers train their Chinese counterparts. This knowledge transfer may allow China to overtake Europe and the United States in the future. Comment on factual images of the factory, of the premises where the workers are housed. Interviews of workers and a French engineer.
The atmosphere is very heavy at the Georges Pompidou hospital in Paris after the suicide on the spot of a cardiology teacher, Jean-Louis Mégnien. Comments on images of the sites alternate with the testimony of Professor Philippe HALIMI, head of the radiology department at the Georges Pompidou Hospital and the interview of Professor Bernard GRANGER, psychiatrist and member of the CHSCT of the AP-HP.
Thousands of "white coats", doctors and staff, supported by great teachers, demonstrated in Paris and in the provinces against the project of reform of the mode of management of the public hospital. Comments on images of the event in Paris alternate with interviews with Bernard DEBRE, urologist Hôpital Cochin and deputy UMP of Paris and André GRIMALDI, head of department at La Pitié Salpetrière.
Natural wine is a process that respects biodynamics without any added pesticides. Explanation with Alexandre BAIN, winemaker in Tracy-sur-Loire, Nièvre.
Survey on France Telecom’s business methods. Comment on factual and illustrative images, alternating with interviews of a disgruntled client, Françoise BRIQUET, and agency managers, about the competition and in particular the very aggressive commercial strategy of France Télécom: Marc LABARRE (Cégétel) who denounces, and Alain LENOIR (France Télécom) who argues in good faith.
Subject devoted to the system advocated by Leclerc: the direct sale to consumers of products bought from manufacturers, would lower prices by reducing margins. Comment on images of Leclerc stores, with customers lining up at the checkout counter, of Edouard Leclerc’s wife reading the mail, as well as the latter in one of his stores.
Asked by Louis BERIOT about the opportunity for a public debate on nuclear energy in France, ESTAING President Valéry GISCARD underlines that "France is a country that has no energy" and specifies that all aspects of the nuclear solution will be studied.
Apple released the iMac on 15 August 1998 in the United States. The first French deliveries will soon begin. Comment on illustration images and interviews with specialists on the subject: Hugues ASSEMAN, marketing manager, Jean-François EDY, sales manager at the FNAC and Thomas LOT, general manager of "Apple Computer".
Immersed in the archives of the Salon de l'Auto when it was not yet called the Mondial. Very quickly, politicians realized that it was necessary to show up, that it was the popular event par excellence. From General DE GAULLE to Nicolas SARKOZY, by way of Georges POMPIDOU or François MITTERRAND, everyone had his style but nobody has ever despised his driving voters. Comment on archive images and interviews Serge BELLU and Mathieu FLONNEAU (automotive historians).
The curiosities of the 73rd Salon de l'Automobile, Porte de Versailles, in Paris. Presentation of the Rolls Royce and Cadillac models. Interview with John GRETTENBERGER (CEO Cadillac), presentation by François BOUZANQUET (Mitsubishi) of the NP 90 X of Mitsubishi and presentation of the Porsche 959.
Topic dedicated to the location of BSN plants in Japan.Comment on a picture of a group plant in the suburbs of Tokyo and Danone advertisements in Japanese. Interview with René SATORETTE about the launch of fresh cheese, a product unknown in Japan.