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Video Collection: Tour de France

Sunday, July 23rd is the last day of the Tour de France 2017. Did you know the EUscreen Portal contains a lot of Tour de France footage?

Most of the following videos are from our partner l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA). They have a great collection of clips about the race itself and clips about the broadcasting equipment used during the Tour de France (cameras etc.) in the period between 1946-1965.

Enjoy!

From Bordeaux to Grenoble, the cycling tour of France


A five leg cycle race, the “Ronde de France” from Bordeaux to Grenoble. Summary of the race in pictures.


Provider: INA / France 1946

End of the Tour de France: the stages from Bordeaux to Paris


During the 17th stage of the Tour de France, the pack of riders moves along steadily to Royan and 80 km away from Sables d’Olonne.


Provider: INA / France 1947

The Tour de France: stages 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5


A visual summary of the first 5 stages of the 1947 Tour de France: Paris-Lille, Lille-Brussels, Brussels-Luxembourg, Luxembourg-Strasbourg and Strasbourg-Besançon.


Provider: INA / France 1947

The saga of the Tour de France


Louison Bobet and Gino Bartali engage in an Homeric duel during the 1948 Tour de France.


Provider: INA / France 1948

Tour de France: stages 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5


Highlights of the first 5 stages of the 1948 Tour de France: Paris-Trouville, Caen-Dinard, Dinard-Nantes, Nantes-La Rochelle and La Rochelle-Bordeaux.


Provider: INA / France 1948

Tour de France: the end of the Tour


Highlights of the final stages. After Saarbrücken, Metz, Liège, Namur and Lille, this is the last stage: Beauvais, Saint-Cloud, Boulogne, and the arrival at the Parc des Princes.


Provider: INA / France 1948

The Tour de France : 2nd, 3rd and 4th stages


Summary of the Reims-Brussels, Brussels-Boulogne-sur-Mer and Boulogne-sur-Mer-Rouen stages.


Provider: INA / France 1949

Tour de France cycle race: 11th stage Pau – Saint-Gaudens


The Italian Gino Bartali wins the 11th stage of the 1950 Tour de France in front of Louison Bobet. This was a mountain stage between Pau and Saint-Gaudens.


Provider: INA / France 1950

Tour de France cycle race: 1st stage Paris – Metz


The starting line for this first stage was in Nogent Sur Marne. The cyclists competing in the 37th Tour de France race from Paris to Metz.


Provider: INA / France 1950

Tour de France cycle race: 5th Stage Rouen – Dinard


This stage through Normandy and Brittany was won by the Italian Giovanni Corrieri.


Provider: INA / France 1950

End of the Tour de France, finish on the Champs-Elysées


Cycling: a recap of the final stages of the Tour de France, which was won by Fausto Coppi, ahead of Belgium’s Ockers, Spain’s Ruiz, Italy’s Bartali and France’s Jean Robic.


Provider: INA / France 1952

The Tour de France 1954


Preparations for the Tour de France in the Olympic Stadium, with a.o. Jean Garnault, secretary-general of the Tour and Jacques Goddet, director-general of the Tour, in their offices.


Provider: NISV / The Netherlands 1954

Preparation Tour de France


Wout Wagtmans (by car) and Louison Bobet, winner of 1953, inspect the stadium a day before the race starts. Cyclists Jan Nolten and Gerrit Voorting are getting a medical exam.


Provider: NISV / The Netherlands 1954

How RTF covers the Tour de France


A look at the technical facilities that will enable viewers to follow all the stages of the Tour de France this year.


Provider: INA / France 1963

RTF’s lightweight cameras


Feature on the evolution of reporting equipment and the RTF: cameras are becoming lighter all the time and are accompanied by a portable transmitter.


Provider: INA / France 1964

Tom Simpson


Interview with Tom Simpson (born in Britain in 1937, died on the slopes of Mont Ventoux during the Tour de France in 1967 because of exhaustion, the heat, dehydration, and amphetamines).


Provider: RTBF / Belgium 1965

Broadcasting equipment on the Tour de France


Report on the equipment used during the Tour de France 1965 by the Office de Radio-Télévision Française (ORTF – French Radio-Television Office), with a live broadcast.


Provider: INA / France 1965

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