OLYMPICS WINTER GAMES

6 February 2026, opening of the Olympic Winter Games in Milano Cortina: Look at their first edition in Chamonix, in 1924 with the spectacular jumping event, won hands down by the Norwegians!

January 21, 1976, 1st commercial flight of the Concorde

Fifty years ago, on January 21, 1976, the Concorde made its first commercial flight, carrying around a hundred privileged passengers to Rio de Janeiro and Bahrain. A new chapter in the history of civil aviation was being written in the sky.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

OPALICUS CENSORSHIP

What kind of Eupenlicus are you? This is the question that the duet Jean-Poiret and Michel Serrault attempted to answer with humor, which earned them the wrath of General de Gaulle, who had copies of these end-of-year greetings seized from all movie theaters in France and Navarre. Answer at TC 00:05:30:00!

OUTSIDE THE WALLS

While the Centre Pompidou is undergoing a makeover, its programming continues beyond its walls. From June to December 2025, the legendary couple Nikki de St Phalle and Jean Tinguely will be honored at the Grand Palais, filmed here by Pathé in 1961. (Ref: 1961 33 2)

THE FIRST AIR TRAVEL TROUGHOUT EUROPE

GP archives is proud to announce that a digitally restored copy of “The First Air Travel Throughout Europe” – a 90-minute film directed by Charles Metzger produced by Gaumont in 1922 – will be previewed at the Budapest Classics Film Marathon on September 18, 2025. The film has been reedited in accordance with the original version and digitally restored from the nitrate negatives prints stored by GP archives.