Discovering old film archives.
The National Archives of France participates on WDAH 2025 by showing its films , to enable the public to appreciate and understand a cinematographic production belonging to the field of the State's public action. The 60,000 titles preserved are a window open to the depth, variety and richness of a wide range of inspirations: the women and men of the State, cultural and educational activities, health prevention, environmental preservation, filmed trials, the oral archives of witnesses to their time, popular education. To be seen : 1. National film on French agricultural machinery, directed by J.-C. Bernard, 1912, black and white, 60 min, silent (Agriculture Film Library collection). 2. The Coëtlogon Agricultural and Home Economics Centre – Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), director Jean Benoit-Lévy, cinematography Edmond Floury, 1929, black and white, 28 min, silent (Agriculture Film Library collection). 3. [Coronation of Haile Selassie I, King of Kings of Ethiopia, Lord of Lords, Conqu...