The fabulous story of the DS, a film by Serge Dubor
A film dedicated to the history of the Citroën DS, presented by Serge Dubor, kept in the Paul Magès archives.
Film preserved and broadcast by the Paul Magès Association
Presentation and original captions
Understanding this document
In this document
No usable transcription has been provided for this archive: only the title "La fabuleuse histoire de la DS. par Serge DUBOR" is available, with no transcribed content text allowing for quotes or factual details to be drawn from it. It is therefore not possible to describe the sequence, the participants, or the images of the film here, due to the lack of a complete transcription p. 4.
What the title indicates
The title mentions a film dedicated to the history of the DS, directed or presented by a certain Serge Dubor p. 4. No other information—date, duration, filming location, precise content—appears in the transmitted elements.
Context
The Citroën DS, presented at the Paris Motor Show in 1955, remains famous for its design by Flaminio Bertoni and for its hydropneumatic suspension, developed in particular by Paul Magès. This system, combined with brakes and steering assisted by the same hydraulic architecture, made the DS an iconic car of post-war French automotive innovation.
Many films and documentaries, amateur or professional, have since retraced the history of this model and its inventors—this type of production falls into this category, although it is not possible here to specify, based on the only available document, whether it is an institutional, amateur, or television film.
Archivist's perspective
This item appears to be an audiovisual piece or a document announcing a film dedicated to the history of the DS, kept among the personal archives of Paul Magès p. 4. Its positioning in a folder grouping several films on the DS and on the engineer's career suggests that it belongs to a collection of testimonies and recordings relating to the genesis and posterity of this model.
It can usefully be compared with other items from the same collection, such as La déesse de la route, film de Gilles Cayatte or Les premiers pas de la DS 19, film 8mm de Paul Magès, which document, from different angles, the history of this vehicle.
In the absence of a detailed transcription, the dating remains unspecified: nothing in the available elements allows this film to be situated in time, whether it is a period production or a later tribute.
