The Basque Film Library offers all the material on cycling that it keeps in its archive. Coinciding with the passage of the Tour de France through the Basque Country, the institution honors film and cycling lovers and compiles the 92 films about this sport that it keeps in its archive and shares on its website.
Thus, in the Funds section of the portal, it will be possible to consult the more than 90 amateur films that make up the ‘Txirrindularitza’ collection, filmed by individuals and which have been digitized, documented and cataloged in the Basque Film Library.
As he explained, these are films made between the 20s and the 80s of the last century and where you can see everything from amateur races to stages of the Tour de France, including the Six Hours of Euskadi.
The oldest film is one from the 1920s (the exact year in which it was filmed is not known) deposited by the family of the architect Ricardo Bastida. These are images of the public waiting for the runners to pass on a mountain pass. Also noteworthy is the film ‘V Gran Premio Bicicleta Eibarresa’ (1956), deposited by the Eibar City Council and restored by the Basque Film Library.
In addition, you can see numerous filming of professional, amateur and cadet races; some images of the cycling world championships held in San Sebastián and Lasarte-Oria in 1965; stages of the Tour de France as it passes through Euskadi and in the Pyrenees; or images of stages of the Tour of Spain ending in Donostia, among others.
