Mrs de Galard, you are the producer of Dim Dam Dom.
It is one of the most revolutionary shows on TV.
Where did the idea for this show come from ?
A year ago, Mr Contamine asked me
to develop a women's programme for the second channel.
There was nothing revolutionary to the project on paper.
It was a succession of segments,
with some very short ones, and that was revolutionary.
Some were 1-2 mn long, and up to 15 mn.
For one hour there are up to 10 segments
with very different people.
What is the guiding principle of the programme?
We want to inform the public
through high-quality images,
and now high-quality sound.
What lies behind this quest for aestheticism?
I would like to make as many people as possible
aware of the problems surrounding and affecting them.
By people I mean women, basically.
So that they can see their daily surroundings
with some taste and some sense of quality.
I try to infuse the images with that same quality.
I tend to lean toward the 2nd dimension,
and for an issue...
To look neat, a topic cannot be left raw.
It must be thought-through, worked-out and well-prepared.
And then...
We may end up with a...
with an image which may seem absurd
to someone who didn't watch it or didn't understand.
But this image will be able to move,
because of our regard for quality,
it will move people with inquiring minds,
who are actually the target of this show.
You say you want to introduce
everyday issues to female viewers,
by showing them images constituting associations of ideas.
We have a fashion segment
featuring little sailors,
which were everywhere this year presented by all the designers.
We show these fashion models in front of Jules Verne scenes,
because a Jules Verne exhibition
is about to open at the Bibliothèque Nationale.
And we want to link those sailor costumes
to Captain Nemo.
Our aim is to place the sailors from today's fashion, spring '66,
in the news.
Not only fashion news: our models aren't standing on a catwalk.
They are connected to Jules Verne,
who wrote 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,
and connected the sea to his work.
This segment was shot by a fashion photographer,
a young man called Just Jaeckin.
Vadim has worked for us,
as well as Agnès Varda, for a segment to be shown later on.
Regular movie directors work for us.
They adapt to the television format and to Dim Dam Dom,
in order to take part in this magazine.
I'm fairly happy
because until now, the show has been watched and enjoyed
by a certain group of people.
They say it's high-quality, refined, smart and sophisticated...
Whatever.
They take their hat off to the show.
I have yet another goal.
I want as many women as possible to watch it.
How can you get them to?
Let them turn their TV to it just once,
on a day they know we're showing something about fashion.
They watch for 10-15 minutes.
If they don't like it, so be it.
But at least they tried it.
My dream is that as many viewers as possible
discover, through Dim Dam Dom,
new means of expression and TV production.
Subtitles: C. Bourgogne, L. Serris, T. Close-Koenig & E. Fuchs.