en:
  vincent-pascucci:
    chapter-1:
      c: 1
      title: "Introduction: family, school, work"
      subtitles:
        sequence-1:
          s: 1
          from: "00:00:01,03"
          to: "00:00:05,24"
          text: "My name is Pascucci."
        sequence-2:
          s: 2
          from: "00:00:05,24"
          to: "00:00:09,24"
          text: "I am of Italian origin."
        sequence-3:
          s: 3
          from: "00:00:09,24"
          to: "00:00:18,20"
          text: "I was born in Italy, in the region of Pesaro, at Sant’Angelo in Lizzola to be exact."
        sequence-4:
          s: 4
          from: "00:00:18,20"
          to: "00:00:22,21"
          text: "That is a beautiful little hill."
        sequence-5:
          s: 5
          from: "00:00:22,21"
          to: "00:00:28,11"
          text: "I once had the opportunity to see my birthplace again."
        sequence-6:
          s: 6
          from: "00:00:28,11"
          to: "00:00:29,25"
          text: ~
        sequence-7:
          s: 7
          from: "00:00:29,25"
          to: "00:00:37,24"
          text: "My parents came to France, thanks to an agreement concerning manual laborers"
        sequence-8:
          s: 8
          from: "00:00:37,24"
          to: "00:00:39,09"
          text: ~
        sequence-9:
          s: 9
          from: "00:00:39,09"
          to: "00:00:44,04"
          text: "that had been signed between France and Italy after World War I."
        sequence-10:
          s: 10
          from: "00:00:44,04"
          to: "00:00:52,12"
          text: "These work contracts gave Italian antifascists the opportunity"
        sequence-11:
          s: 11
          from: "00:00:52,12"
          to: "00:01:01,20"
          text: "to leave Italy legally and escape imprisonment."
        sequence-12:
          s: 12
          from: "00:01:01,20"
          to: "00:01:10,04"
          text: "I don’t know the exact date of my fathers’ emigration,"
        sequence-13:
          s: 13
          from: "00:01:10,04"
          to: "00:01:19,20"
          text: "but it took place between 1921 and 1922, as I was born in 1923."
        sequence-14:
          s: 14
          from: "00:01:19,20"
          to: "00:01:21,11"
          text: ~
        sequence-15:
          s: 15
          from: "00:01:21,11"
          to: "00:01:29,20"
          text: "When I was six months old, my mother and I came to France to join my father."
        sequence-16:
          s: 16
          from: "00:01:29,20"
          to: "00:01:30,26"
          text: ~
        sequence-17:
          s: 17
          from: "00:01:30,26"
          to: "00:01:38,13"
          text: "Since then I have lived in Nanterre. For almost 83 years now."
        sequence-18:
          s: 18
          from: "00:01:38,13"
          to: "00:01:43,02"
          text: ~
        sequence-19:
          s: 19
          from: "00:01:43,02"
          to: "00:01:47,03"
          text: "My father was a Communist, an antifascist."
        sequence-20:
          s: 20
          from: "00:01:47,03"
          to: "00:01:57,14"
          text: "He joined the French Communist Party as soon as we got French citizenship."
        sequence-21:
          s: 21
          from: "00:01:57,14"
          to: "00:02:09,00"
          text: "He applied for naturalization in 1930. Otherwise it was very difficult to find work."
        sequence-22:
          s: 22
          from: "00:02:09,00"
          to: "00:02:09,28"
          text: ~
        sequence-23:
          s: 23
          from: "00:02:09,28"
          to: "00:02:20,23"
          text: "I went to school, “The Ecole Republique”, in Nanterre."
        sequence-24:
          s: 24
          from: "00:02:20,23"
          to: "00:02:22,19"
          text: ~
        sequence-25:
          s: 25
          from: "00:02:22,19"
          to: "00:02:33,09"
          text: "The school has now disappeared to make way for the University Paris X."
        sequence-26:
          s: 26
          from: "00:02:33,09"
          to: "00:02:37,09"
          text: ~
        sequence-27:
          s: 27
          from: "00:02:37,09"
          to: "00:02:46,27"
          text: "I went to that school until the age of 13 and got my Elementary School Certificate - Certificat d’Etudes."
        sequence-28:
          s: 28
          from: "00:02:46,27"
          to: "00:02:57,25"
          text: "To please my teacher, I took an entry test for high school, but it was not my goal."
        sequence-29:
          s: 29
          from: "00:02:57,25"
          to: "00:03:07,10"
          text: "At the time my brother had just been born,"
        sequence-30:
          s: 30
          from: "00:03:07,10"
          to: "00:03:15,06"
          text: "my mother was not working because she had a heart disease."
        sequence-31:
          s: 31
          from: "00:03:15,06"
          to: "00:03:23,24"
          text: "We needed to call the doctor often and my father was only a worker, so we were not very rich."
        sequence-32:
          s: 32
          from: "00:03:23,24"
          to: "00:03:31,18"
          text: "On one hand, I wanted to contribute to the family by working."
        sequence-33:
          s: 33
          from: "00:03:31,18"
          to: "00:03:36,10"
          text: "On the other hand, I wanted"
        sequence-34:
          s: 34
          from: "00:03:36,10"
          to: "00:03:39,01"
          text: ~
        sequence-35:
          s: 35
          from: "00:03:39,01"
          to: "00:03:46,02"
          text: "to be free and independent. That was even more important."
        sequence-36:
          s: 36
          from: "00:03:46,02"
          to: "00:03:48,03"
          text: ~
        sequence-37:
          s: 37
          from: "00:03:48,03"
          to: "00:03:53,21"
          text: "So at the age of 14, I started working."
        sequence-38:
          s: 38
          from: "00:03:53,21"
          to: "00:04:08,20"
          text: "That was in 1937/1938, during the first crisis, and unemployment was a big issue."
        sequence-39:
          s: 39
          from: "00:04:08,20"
          to: "00:04:14,19"
          text: "As I had learned no trade, I did a little bit of everything."
        sequence-40:
          s: 40
          from: "00:04:14,19"
          to: "00:04:17,08"
          text: ~
        sequence-41:
          s: 41
          from: "00:04:17,08"
          to: "00:04:30,17"
          text: "I worked in a toy factory; I also worked unloading the little boats on the Seine."
        sequence-42:
          s: 42
          from: "00:04:30,17"
          to: "00:04:41,10"
          text: "I was not very picky about the work, as it was quite hard to find a job at the time."
