Jocs florals de la llengua catalana : 92e année

In 1950 the renowned cellist and conductor Pablo Casals presides the Floral Games of the Catalan Language in the city of Perpignan. Note: Floral Games, or poetic jousting in Catalan, which were instituted in 1859 in Barcelona and later banned in Spain in by the regime of Francisco Franco, were recovered in 1941 by the Catalans exiled in various places around the world.



Year
1950
Type
Film
Length
00:01:23
Gauge
16mm, 16mm
Sound
Silent
Image
B&W
Genre
News reels
Theme
Sites and monuments, Society and traditions
Place
France > Perpignan
Film archive
Institut Jean Vigo