Based in Limoges, the structure preserves 7,000 films deposited by individuals, often the descendants of the authors of the images. “If they are interesting, we digitize the films. Either people collect them, or we keep them. By agreement, they authorize us to show them.”
80 years ago, the South-West celebrates its liberation: our report
Bordeaux, Agen, Périgueux, Bergerac, Royan, Angoulême, Cognac, Saintes, Dax, Biarritz, Oloron… After four long years of occupation by the Nazis, the region was gradually liberated from the German yoke, from August 1944 to May 1945: a dive into the archives to relive this period of jubilation
Among these short films, several hundred concern the Dordogne. After having done the same thing for departments of Limousin, Olivier Gouéry has therefore concocted a one-hour Périgord program which will be screened on the occasion of the Heritage Days, in the cinemas of Saint-Astier and Thiviers (read the box), in conjunction with Ciné Passion.
Marriage, football and félibrée
We will thus attend a wedding in Périgueux in 1939, a football match in Nontron in 1933, the félibrée of 1939 in Saint-Astier, the Liberation of Périgueux in 1944, a family Christmas in 1971, etc. Two slightly longer institutional documents will complete the program: one on the consolidation of agricultural land by Safer in 1965, the other on the Clairvivre health city in 1935.
“All these images give an insight into life in Périgord between the end of the 1920s and the end of the 1970s, and into the evolution of society,” notes the specialist. “For example, we see the joy of a little girl from the 1970s who receives a salad spinner for Christmas. With our perspective today, we understand her assignment to become a good housewife.”
Since most of the films are silent, they will be commented on live in order to “guide the viewer”.
