FILMS OF FRANCE

Duration: 13 films

Creator: Produced by Vavin, Inc. for French Government Tourist Office

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Description: Titles are: CONTRASTS OF CARCASSONNE. 1959 6min b&w $25, free-loan; color $50, free-loan. A trip from this medieval city to the northern ranges of the Pyrenees to visit the solar energy laboratory of Mont Louis. FRANCE FOR THE SPORTSMAN. 1959 14min b&w $50, free-loan; color $100, free-loan. Sports available in various parts of France. Shows water sports, golf, fishing, hunting and motoring, yachting, jai alai, boules, and bull fight. GLIMPSES OF NORMANDY. 1957 6min b&w $25, free-loan; color $50, free-loan. Visit to Mont St Michel at the boundaries of Normandy and Brittany. IN THE PEACEFUL VALLEY OF THE LOIRE. 1958 13½min b&w $40, free-loan; color $95, free-loan. Paris, along the Loire Valley, visits to the small communities of the Benedictines; also a famous basilica. IT'S CONVENTION TIME IN FRANCE. 1959 14½min b&w $40, free-loan; color $100, free-loan. Entertainment and sight-seeing available for the conventioneers at Cannes and Nice and other places in France. MAGIC OF LES BAUX. 1958 5min b&w $25, free-loan; color $50, free-loan. The once fortified castle town, which is now a tourist attraction. Points out that aluminum was discovered here. OLDEST PARIS. 1958 5min b&w $25, free-loan; color $50, free-loan. Region of the Ile de la Cite and the Marais, visiting the National Archives and the Carnavalet Museum. PARIS OF THE PAINTERS. 1957 13min b&w $50, free-loan; color $100, free-loan. Paris' store of paintings and sculptures; the Louvre Museum. ROUSSILLON FOLKWAYS. 1959 6min b&w $25, free-loan; color $50, free-loan. French Catalonia including Perpignan, Prades, St Michel de Cuxa, Collioure and Banyuls-sur-Mer. Shows the grape harvest and Catalonian folk dancers. SHOPPING IN PARIS. 1957 14min b&w $50, free-loan; color $100, free-loan. Paris fashions; the art district and unusual gifts found only in Paris. SUMMERTIME IN THE FRENCH ALPS. 1959 14min b&w $50, free-loan; color $100, free-loan. Savoy region of lakes and mountains, its vacation facilities, skiing, alpinism, skating and cable car excursions. Shows children's camps and a sample of Savoyard cuisine. VISIT TO THE BASQUE COUNTRY. 1957 6min b&w $25, free-loan; color $50, free-loan. Basque countryside and a look into the culture of the people; folklore, bull-fights and dances. WOMEN OF FRANCE. 1959 14½min b&w $50, free-loan; color $100, free-loan. French women in their many career activities: a wholesale butcher, a senator, a taxi driver, a ski champ, a composer, a lawyer, business girls and a farm wife.

Complete Record: Source: Radiant Interest level: jh-sh-c-ad Format: sd

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)