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La mémoire du siècle depuis 1895, préservée dans nos archives cinématographiques.
Archives américaines
1943-1946: World
War II in colour
17
hours - Gaumont Collection
From
1942 until 1944, only one programme was broadcast throughout
France:
France
Actualités. Produced
by a Franco-German company, these materials were of course riddled with
propaganda
.
Other
newsreel programmes would not reappear until 1946
.
Intent
on compiling the entire history of the 20th century on film and eager to
fill the gap caused by wartime, Cinémathèque Gaumont acquired 100 or
so items from the National Archives filmed during World War
II, including some 20 colour sequences in 16
mm
.