Resources ‘Transport’
The members of Diazinteregio have been working for many years to promote their collections of film archives from different regions. Within the Amorce platform, we bring together their work on common topics. Discover a few specific articles on the respective websites of the network members on key points relating to the theme of transport in amateur, institutional and activist cinema, as well as archive montages and recordings of testimonies made by our members and published on Amorce.
Articles
Already well established in the literary imagination, the train continued its journey in images through the eyes of filmmakers sensitive to its symbolic beauty, starting with the advent of cinema and the Lumière brothers' sensational film of a train pulling into La Ciotat station (1). Amateur films quickly took up this railway motif, with many operators taking their cameras on board trains to capture its aesthetic potential.
Daniel Savoye was then chief engineer on the Abeille Provence. This deep-sea tugboat is responsible for towing the France, now renamed Norway, to Bremerhaven in Germany.
The Renault factory in Flins, as seen in a film shot in 1956
The Brétigny-Vendôme line centenary train at Auneau station
The history of the ‘Little Train of Wichita’ at Pasteur Park in Orléans
Film mapping of the canals in the Centre-Val de Loire region
Construction site for the Paris-Bordeaux high-speed rail line on the Vendômois plateaus
Tests on the suspended monorail in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire
The daily life of a lorry driver travelling from Eure-et-Loir to Rome and Brescia in Italy
The oldest 2CV Club in the world in Orléans
Two young technologies from the 1930s, the automobile and cinema, come together around an accident.
An operator from the SNCF film production department films snow clearance on the tracks in the 1950s.
The centenary celebrations for the Paris-Dreux railway line
The history of Concorde, from its first trials to its appearance in chariot parades
History of popular aviation, developed by the Popular Front, through school workshops in the Indre region.
The scooter generation on a ride through the Vendôme region
Educational file written by Marie-Christine Bonneau-Darmagnac, history and geography teacher
Educational file compiled by Marie-Christine Bonneau-Darmagnac, history and geography teacher
Educational document written by Pierrick HERVE, Doctor of Contemporary History, Senior Lecturer at CPGE BL Guisth’Hau High School in Nantes.
A journey through the archives, reconstructing a trip departing from Le Touquet Airport, checking in at the counter, the arrival of passengers, the departure of others, right up to take-off and flight, throughout the 20th century.
Roland Hanquiez lives in Estréelles, a village where the slow train used to pass through, a train that served the Course valley at a maximum speed of... 28 km/h. Passionate about local history, Roland Hanquiez fondly recounts the story of this TGV: Train à Grandes Vibrations (High Vibration Train), which mainly carried passengers but, during the sugar season, filled its carriages with beetroot.
To fly! To soar through the air!
A dream almost as old as humanity itself.
A somewhat crazy dream: because wanting to fly is to challenge human nature, whose place is on the ground and not between heaven and earth...
A dream almost as old as humanity itself.
A somewhat crazy dream: because wanting to fly is to challenge human nature, whose place is on the ground and not between heaven and earth...
