Vive le tour

Duration: 19

Year Published: 1962

Creator: New Yorker

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Documentary of the 1962 Tour de France bicycle race. For twenty days, the racers fight a painful, debilitating battle of endurance. Drinking and eating while in motion to replace the nine pounds of sweat they lose each day, they grab knapsacks of food along the road and leap into bistros dashing off with what they can. This film captures the speed, the collisions, the spectators and the exploitation., Documents the annual 20-day bicycle race held each July in France. Shows the racers' tension of competition, the physical stresses, the eating and drinking while in motion, the collisions and spills, and the enthusiasm of the spectators.

Complete Record: Documentary of the 1962 Tour de France bicycle race. For twenty days, the racers fight a painful, debilitating battle of endurance. Drinking and eating while in motion to replace the nine pounds of sweat they lose each day, they grab knapsacks of food along the road and leap into bistros dashing off with what they can. This film captures the speed, the collisions, the spectators and the exploitation. , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.