Daisy de Galard

Daisy de Galard (4 November 1929 – 6 January 2007) was a French journalist and television producer. After graduating from the École supérieure de journalisme de Paris, when it was uncommon for a female to be a journalist, De Galard was hired by Hélène Gordon-Lazareff to work for Elle magazine. She was the editor from 1972 to 1975. De Galard also created the television show Dim Dam Dom. She was a board member of National Commission for Communication and Liberties from 1986 to 1989 and then Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel from 1989 to 1995. In 1978, De Galard was awarded the Legion of Honour. Source: Article "Daisy de Galard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Dim Dam Dom

Release Date1965-03-07

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Episode Count66

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Les enfants et Noël

Reflections (in voice-over) by Marguerite DURAS on toys "the most beautiful are those you see behind the window", children's relationship with toys, the "laughter of joy". Shots of dazzled children in front of toys in a window, two children in a shop admiring mechanical toys, different expressions of these children and other children in front of a few toys.

Release Date1965-11-25

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Christmas at Vaugirard

The Nativity revisited by Chantal Goya and Serge Gainsbourg as biblical lovers! On New Year's Eve, Marie and Joseph wander through the cold Parisian streets... Exhausted, they take refuge in the Vaugirard slaughterhouse, where the night watchman offers them a spot of straw. Suddenly Marie doesn't feel well... Don't underestimate the absurdity and quirkiness of a Gainsbourg in panic!

Release Date1966-12-23

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Marguerite Duras and the '68ers

Here Duras assumes a more distant role, less an interviewer than an invested documentarian. Her questions precede footage of her main subject, the sixteen-year-old Romain Goupil, recently excluded from the lycée, among his peers and fellow student revolutonaries. After we see them discuss the complexities of their position and deal with internal dissent, Duras asks Romain if he ever forgets how young he is. Romain replies with a grin: “Totally.”

Release Date1968-03-10

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Le trésor de l’orpheline

Homage to the novelist Delly, to celebrate her centenary, a mini-soap opera (silent photo-novel style with bubbles) with Françoise Dorléac in the role of the orphan Garlonne and Jacques Dutronc in that of the young director Alban.

Release Date1966-10-28

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Delphine Seyrig

Release Date1970-06-01

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La récré

Friendships, games, boredom, first emotions: the playground.

Release Date1967-06-11

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Marguerite Duras in the Lions' Den

Duras, ever the challenging interviewer, forensically questions a Parisian zookeeper regarding the happiness of the animals in his charge. Intercut with her questions is stark black-and-white footage of the animals themselves behind bars, as they pace the length of their small concrete enclosures. Duras is very much on the side of the big cats. “Are you ever careless?” she asks the zookeeper. When he replies in the negative, Duras says smilingly: “In your position I’d be tempted to be careless”.

Release Date1966-02-25

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Marguerite Duras interviews Jeanne Moreau

Duras interviews an exhausted Jeanne Moreau, addressing her friend as vous, despite the fact "the two were close friends for many years, living in neighbouring houses and cooking for each other from the early ‘60s.

Release Date1965-07-28

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Marguerite Duras and the Prison Governess

During this strange and confrontational interview, Duras takes on France’s only female prison warden. In the women’s verbal wrangling we find reflected many contemporary concerns surrounding the ongoing moral disaster of the prison industrial complex.

Release Date1967-11-12

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Marguerite Duras and Stripper Lolo Pigalle

In this episode of Dim Dam Dom, Duras interviews the stripper Lolo Pigalle. A clip of Lolo dancing in a golden dress is followed by an intense and intimate conversation in which Lolo discusses the definition of work, the splitting of the self, and acting vs. sex work.

Release Date1965-10-28

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Vote Count4