Les Années transistor
Gilles Nadeau
1994 - 52 min - Vidéo - Couleur et Noir & Blanc - France

What is there in common with the creation of "Europe N°1" in France, "Radio Caroline", the first pirate station in England, Count Basie, Dalida, the Beatles, the pop music of the 60's, the end of the Algerian War, the assassination of Kennedy, Jean Yanne, the "Maos", May 68, the hippies, Ménie Grégoire, free love, and the effects of full employment ? An invention that was to revolutionise relationships between 1955 and 1975.
This film follows this adventure which made the transistor radio a new Pandora's box. The radio has shaped the story of a generation by amplifying and accelerating changes in the attitudes of a new category of individuals, the young. Commented by Pierre Bouteiller, these images and sounds that have now reached the age of reason have conserved their flavour of eternal youth.