Vive le Tour (Louis Malle, 1962)
Autour des filets (Jacques Doillon, 1973)
Adage (Dominique Delouche, 1964)
...Pour un maillot jaune (Claude Lelouch, 1965)

Dominique Delouche's Adage (13 mins, B&W) shows two top stars of the Paris Opera ballet corps performing a pas de deux from Giselle; the movement is broken down into its successive stages and even the dancers' preparations have a sense of ritual movement. Louis Malle set the standard for the art-sports film with Vive le Tour (19 mins, Color), a dazzling, impressionistic, intensely physical study of the grueling Tour de France bicycle race. Malle captures the excitement and also the exploitation involved in the twenty-day battle of endurance. In shooting the training of handball goalkeepers, Jacques Doillon captures a series of precise, repeated exercises-punctuated by jazz music and the players' inevitable personal ticks: Autour des filets (11 mins, Color) is an observation of human behavior in the style of Doillon's intimist post-New Wave features. Claude Lelouch made a musical of sorts out of the Tour de France in ...Pour un maillot jaune (27 mins, Color), captured without commentary and set to jazz in counterpoint to the images.