A Sunday at Orly
In 1963, France's most visited monument was neither Versailles nor the Eiffel Tower. It was an airport.
- 24 s
- Narrated archive
- History & archives
- Reconstructed archive
- FR · EN
- 11 October 2026
The true fact
Fictional airline, true facts.
- Histoire de l'aéroport d'Orly, 1960-1964 — 3,354,000 terrace visits in 1963
Behind the scenes
The idea.
In 1963, France's most visited monument was an airport. We wanted that Sunday at Orly to be felt at a child's height.
What was hard.
Generators slow fast objects down: our first take-off was three to five times too slow, the aircraft seemed to float. We described speed in fractions of the frame rather than with adjectives. Another trap: the boy's cap was pre-war; he is now bare-headed, in a duffle coat, like a child of 1963.
What we learned.
Everything is settled in the starting image: trajectory, costume, period. Animation fixes nothing.
Generated
- images
- shot animation
- voice-over
Done by hand
- historical research and sources
- writing
- editing
- archive design
- mixing
The generated image, then the same one in the edit, aged like 8 mm film.
The pre-war cap, then the outfit of a child of 1963.
19 generations for 5 kept shots.
Transcript
Sunday, 1963. The most visited monument in France… is neither Versailles, nor the Eiffel Tower. It's an airport: Orly. Over three million visits to its terraces that year. Whole families bought a ticket just to watch the planes leave. We weren't going anywhere. We watched the others go.
Images, animation and voice generated by AI. Fictional airline, true facts.
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