Report illustrating the signing of the agreement between Alain PEYREFITTE (Minister of Information) and Sergei VINOGRADOV (Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs), confirming the adoption by the USSR of the SECAM process of colour television. In the workshop of the Compagnie Française de Télévision in Levallois, the engineer Henri de FRANCE briefly recounts the genesis of this new process of which he is the inventor.
At the international fair in Marseille, colour television is presented at the ORTF stand. The transition to colour retransmission of programs will require some adjustments in program schedules.
During the transition from black and white to colour, which has just been done live, excerpt from the speech of the Minister of Information Georges GORSE, surrounded by Claude MERCIER (director of equipment and operations), Jacques Bernard DUPONT (director general of the ORTF) and Emile BIASINI (Director of Television). The minister solemnly declares "And this is the colour, on the appointed day and at the said time".
Lors du passage du noir et blanc à la couleur, qui vient de s'effectuer en direct, extrait de l'allocution du ministre de l'Information, Georges Gorse, entouré de Claude Mercier (directeur de l'Equipement et de l'exploitation), Jacques-Bernard Dupont (directeur général de l'ORTF) et Emile Biasini (directeur de la Télévision). Le ministre déclare solennellement "Et voici la couleur, au jour fixé et à l'heure dite."