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Death of Alexandre Tarta, the man of the first

2023-03-17T18:49:44.380Z


This pioneer of French television has long been the specialist director of exceptional live broadcasts. He passed away at 94.


Disappeared Thursday at the age of 94, Alexandre Tarta will remain, in the history of television, as "the man of the firsts".

Entering rue Cognacq-Jay on the advice of his friend Pierre Tchernia, he became, from 1955, the one who was called upon for exceptional broadcasts.

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His prize list includes direct from the Aiguille du Midi, a submarine, the aircraft carrier Clemenceau, the liner France and a free balloon.

At the beginning of the 1970s, he remained more than ever in tune with the times, ensuring the launches of Apollo 14, 15 and 16, for all European televisions.


Historical interview with Martin Luther King

His knowledge of the image is such that he is entrusted with the responsibility of a historical interview with Martin Luther King, led by Jacques Sallebert.

It was broadcast in September 1963 in "Five columns on the front page", under the title: "Segregation in the United States, America in black and white".

He is also the one who, at the request of the Élysée, will ensure the retransmission of speeches and press conferences by President de Gaulle.

On April 6, 1974, it was he again who directed the cameras placed at Notre-Dame De -Paris for the ceremony of homage to Georges Pompidou, who had died four days earlier.

Finally, Jacques Chirac chose him to film him during the decisive debate in the second round of the 1995 presidential election.

Touching on all genres, Alexandre Tarta has also directed the recording of prestigious plays, including

Peter Brook's

Timon of Athens , Paul Claudel's

The Satin Shoe

and Eugène Ionesco's

La cantatrice Bald

, with Jean le Poulain.

In 1999, his production of

La Damnation de Faust

by Hector Berlioz was rewarded in Vienna with a European Award.

Finally, he was the first to have sensed, in the early 1960s, that the Scopitone could have an impact.

He filmed 118 of them, without imagining that six decades later, the TNT channels would continue to broadcast them.

Another way to enter history.

Source: lefigaro

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