Word: longchamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither SECAM nor PAL will be ready for any sort of full-scale operation until the fall of 1967. In fact, France's only going color setup is a closed-circuit link between the paddock and the betting windows at Longchamp race track. That made even more apropos the remark of French Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, who claimed that France, in the hope of Europe-wide agreement, had so far been holding back its color TV industry "like horses at the starting gate." Said Peyrefitte: "Now we're telling them...
France's Prix de 1'Arc de Triomphe always seems to bring out the patriot in horsemen - just possibly because of its $270,000 purse. The field of 20 thoroughbreds that paraded to the post at Longchamp last week carried the silks of six nations, but the horses' nationalities were a little confused...
French horses had won the Arc 32 out of 43 years, and most of the 60,000 fans who crowded into Longchamp last week were rooting for Sea Bird to make it 33 out of 44. Tom Rolfe was practically a long shot at 8 to 1. True, he had won the Preakness, the American Derby, five other stakes, and $518,205. But he was used to running counterclockwise, on flat dirt tracks. Like most French races, the Arc is run clockwise, and Longchamp's 1½-mile grass track is anything but flat: in the middle...
...push out the realm of the camera." He loved "wet days, yellow, foggy days, twilights," and to catch the mood, he would purposely blur the picture by kicking the tripod or wetting the lens. In developing his famed Steeplechase Day, Paris; After the Races, a carefree scene at the Longchamp track, he kept the background dark, highlighting the figures until they became three dimensional...