Chapter 2

VT-TV IN A BLOCK OF FLATS Maine-Montparnasse

To talk of the post-television age is still not much more than mere phrase-making, so the experiment described below is all the more valuable in that it remains a very isolated one for France and indeed for Europe.

The gigantic property development Maine-Montparnasse was given its first expression in a residential block on a much larger scale than others being built in Paris.(1) Very high, and topped by a swimming-pool in a style consonant with all the luxury of this huge barracks of well-heeled co-proprietors (executives, cosmopolitans, or VIPs), the building also sheltered … J.-M. Serreau.

The founder of the video group we have described above had the idea of setting up an internal television ...

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