Video 1
‘Affaire du talc Morhange’ JT 20H, 28 August 1972, Deuxième chaîne. (INA) Commentary by an employee of the social services administration stating that tests have confirmed that all the children had been exposed to the contaminated Morhange baby powder. This is followed by an interview with a father of one of the children, who had only purchased Morhange brand of baby powder the one time and whose daughter reacted to it immediately and died 2 days later. Watch the full video here.
Video 2
‘L’hexachlorophene, affaire du talc morhange, interview du doyen Fournier’, Journal Télévisé du 20 Heure, 28 August 1972, Deuxième chaîne. (INA) Scientists from the Fernand Widal centre stating that hexachlorophene might be dangerous, like any chemical ingredient, if not used properly. Watch the full video here.
Video 3
‘Affaire talc Morhange’ Aujourd’hui Madame, 15 September 1972, Deuxième chaine (INA) [‘Morhange talcum affair’ Today Madame, broadcast on France’s second channel]. This was the first televised debate on the Morhange scandal. Watch the full video here.
Video 4
Signal: Dentifrice: bactericide [Signal: toothpaste: bactericide], Elida & Gibs, Unilever, 01 January 1970 (INA). Advertisement for Signal toothpaste that used hexachlorophene as a selling point. Watch the full video here.
Video 5
‘Talc Morhange’, Le journal de 20H, 12 July 1977, Antenne 2 (INA). Victims take centre stage in news broadcasts, such as this one. Watch the full video here.
Video 6
‘Emission du 19 octobre 1979’, Journal de 20 Heure, 19 October 1979, Antenne 2 (INA). The Morhange baby powder trial on television. Watch the full video here.
Video 7
‘Sois Belle et Achète’, Le Nouveau Vendredi. A look at consumption and cosmetics in the early 1980s. Watch the full video here.