Canal+ is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Four decades of history, on which the channel returns thanks to a clip full of nostalgia. The birth of the antenna, its development until today, its best moments… A compendium of emotions which will be revealed this November 4.
Canal+ is 40 years old. For this anniversary, the channel gave itself a gift that will please its subscribers: an exceptional documentary which traces the history of the channel. The trailer is already tempting.
In a style that perfectly matches the channel, between comedy and humor, with brilliant production and captivating narration, this mini-documentary looks back on the last forty years of the fourth French television channel. A document where winks multiply.
On November 4, 1984, the encrypted channel was born. Since then, it has continued to grow to become a monument of French-speaking television. In this trailer, we can see in a few seconds everything that made the success of this fourth channel, which was called for by François Mitterand in 1982 to be more focused on cultural themes, without royalties or advertising. A founding speech that the channel does not fail to include in its clip.
A mission: “Embody culture in France”
The channel took on this mission from its launch in 1984. At the time, Canal focused on cinema and adopted a singular multi-broadcast (programs were only broadcast a maximum of six times, over three weeks). . Quickly, in addition to films, the channel turned to sport. Football quickly returned to its second major pole, with Canal+ offering a Ligue 1 match just five days after its creation. Less publicized sports are also on the channel’s program (boxing, basketball, golf, poker).
Canal+’s love affair with cinema is not new, but still constitutes the channel’s DNA, as evidenced by the group’s recent decision to become “the platform that broadcasts platforms”, in teaming up with other streaming giants like Netflix, which is discussed in the proposed extract.
More than moments, these are also personalities who have marked the history of the channel: journalists and commentators, whether in the world of sport, where we notably hear the voice of Julien Fébreau and his famous “accelerate , accelerate”, which pushed Frenchman Pierre Gasly into the Monza Grand Prix on September 6, 2020. The world of cinema is represented here by its actors, such as Mathieu Kassovitz and Guillaume Canet. Finally, comedians are not forgotten, like Jamel Debbouze, Florence Foresti and Jonathan Cohen.
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