[Document média: P_0008]
Photo

Frédéric Back in the middle of his set. Left: the script girl nicknamed Marrakech, grips "Ti Pit" and "Gros Pit" Gingras and cameraman Jacques Fogel. Right: actor Guy Hoffmann (who also co-produced the episode), sound engineer Michel Belaieff and actor Paul Hébert.

Credit: Roger Moride, 1960

Robert Fulton et le bateau à vapeur
(Robert Fulton and the Steamboat)

Initial broadcast: 30/01/1960
Running time: 00:30:00
Producers: Guy Hoffmann and Jean Martinet
Writers: Fernand Séguin and Jean Matteau
Cast: Paul Hébert as Robert Fulton, Yvon Dufour as Robert R. Livingston, Renée Girard as Harriett Livingston, Jean-Claude Deret as Joel Barlow and Guy Belanger as Browne
Frédéric Back: set and steamboat

Synopsis

While living in Paris, the American Robert Fulton dreamed of adapting the steam engine for use in shipping and tested his first prototypes off the Quai de Chaillot. He later returned to the United States to carry out the project developed in France with Robert R. Livingston. In 1807, his Clermont steamed up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany, launching the first commercially successful steamboat service.