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In the Basque country, the feast of Corpus Christi is a time for traditional celebrations.

The Sardana is a round dance performed in the open, executed on the occasion of various festivities which take place during the year. It is danced to the sound of the Cobla, the traditional Catalan orchestra.

Filmed in Alsace in 1967, an ironsmith readjusts the iron rim of a wheel.

A charcoal burner at work in the forest of Baon, Yonne - from the building of the woodstack to the bagging of the charcoal.

In a village in French Flanders, from Christmas to Epiphany, three men dressed in long coloured robes play the role of the three Magi.

Extracts from two folk tales from Aubrac, told in the Occitan language by Maria Girbal, illustrate various principles of the folk tale.

A masquerade during the carnival period in the villages of Pagolle and Licq-Atherey in the Basque country.

In a village of southern France, a feast is held to commemorate the victory of the village inhabitants over those of a rival, neighbouring village. The victory was won because of a costume they wore that day, invented by a person called "Pailhas".

The carnival of Prats-de-Mollo, a Pyrenean village, is based on the legend of "Jean of the bear" or "the wild man". The festival takes place on the first Sunday following Saint-Blaise, the season when bears begin to search for prey.

The bourrée is a French regional folk dance. Here we see about ten of them, danced to the accordion or local bagpipes, and hear one song bourrée. Recorded in four villages of Aubrac.

A day in the carnival celebrated with great fervour in the fishermen's village of Equihen, Boulonnais.

Songs and dances in the cafés of the Franco-Italian border villages of Vievola and Vernante.

Ethnologists, agricultural experts and historians are studying the life, customs and traditions of the stock farmers of Aubrac, a region whose economy is based on grazing.

Recording of a glove puppet show, staging an episode in the legend of St Anthony.

Technological progress has led to the production of machine tools that can manufacture enormous parts with ever increasing precision. For this kind of work, the human hand intervenes only to control the machine that acts according to a computer program. At the beginning of the industrial revolution, manual labor was assisted mechanically for the manufacture of heavy parts; the human hand was directly in charge of operations. From the beginning of time, crafstmen have worked and made objects…

Act Two of the "Jugement du roi", a melodrama by Fontan and Herbin, written in Paris around 1835 and adapted for string puppets, here handled by Adèle and Louis Valton.

Laurent Girbal and his sister Josephine, the last inhabitants of the village of Les Fajoux, Aubrac, continue to lead the harsh life of peasants of the past.

In Kon Ngo, southern Vietnam, the Sedang mountain people use traditional techniques to make utilitarian pots.

Document on persian music recorded in Paris.

At the big cattle fairs in Aubrac, trading is done by means of gesture and physical attitude - body language at its most explicit.

Recording of a folk tale told by Maria Girbal in the Occitan language.

Recording of a folk tale told by Maria Girbal in the Occitan language.

Recording of a folk tale told by Maria Girbal in the Occitan language.

The hard-working life of one of the last cheese-makers in Aubrac to work in the traditional way.