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LES HEURES DE LYON

Marcel GIBAUD
1965
Version : French
Duration : 20'
Format : 35 mm.
Colors
Scriptwriter : Marcel GIBAUD
Producer : ARMOR FILMS
Country France
With Texte dit par Jean-François LALEY
Music Georges VAN PARYS
Picture Pierre ANCRENAZ / Quinto ALBICOCCO
Stage set Lyon
Archive footage - Inside the Musée de la Marionnette,
- Woman walking in the old town of Lyon,
- Rose garden in the Parc de la Tête d'Or,
- Spinning mills
- Canus workshop with weaving looms,
- Berliet truck assembly line,
- Vintage cars at the Musée de l'Automobile,
- Puppet shows: Guignol and Gnaffron,
- Old-fashioned grape harvests in Beaujolais,
- Celebration of the night of 8 December: balconies lit up with candles.

For more than 2,000 years, Lyon’s hours have followed one another. From dawn to night, over the centuries, we have seen this city whose commercial and industrial past has given it a false reputation for austerity.
Old Lyon is the finest example of Renaissance architecture in the whole of France. Towers, staircases, underground passageways, hidden hotels and hanging gardens make it the perfect place for a stroll.
Modern Lyon offers all the advantages of an exceptional tourist centre, the gastronomic capital of France, situated at the meeting point of the Bresse, Savoy, Auvergne and Provence routes.
Lyon, a mysterious city where everything is waiting to be discovered by travellers, is covered in millions of twinkling lights for the night of 8 December.