An overview of the main research fields at the ILL.

0:45 Andrew HARRISON (director), D20, 1:11 Tilo PIRLING (left), 1:16 Wolfgang SCHMIDT
Material science 1:20 Julian EASTOE (Bristol), 1:27 Isabelle GRILLO (left), 2:14 Small angle scattering instrument D11, 3:42 Tilo PIRLING, 3:44 Inelastic scattering spectrometer IN12, Karin SCHMALZL, 4:19 Time of flight scattering spectrometer IN5, Jacques OLLIVIER
5:55 Reactor swimming pool and control room
Medical radioisotopes 6:54 Ulli KOESTER (Lutetium 177), hot cell
Biology 8:14: deuteration lab, 8:25 Cell membranes Giovanna Fragneto, 9:34 Small angle scattering instrument D33

A short movie describing the ILL.

The neutrons spectrometers and installations that can be seen are: IN16 (Markus APPEL), IN15, D22, D20, WASP, the deuteration lab, the hot cell of the reactor.

A film describing ILL, the world leader in neutron science. The film was displayed at the American Physical Society conference in March 2017.

Watch the movie (720p, 314 Mb) from from here or from Youtube.

It was part of a presentation of the partnership Giant (Grenoble Innovation for Advanced New Technologies).
What can be seen in that movie:

• Some views of Grenoble, the EPN Campus (ILL, ESRF, IBS, CIBB)
• Views of the reactor level C and D, its control room and hot cell
• Instruments SALSA, D11, D22, D20, etc...
• Featuring: Andrew Harrison (Director), Charles Dewhurst, Thilo Pirling, Karin Schmalzl, Jacques Ollivier, Rafik Ballou (Inst. Louis Néel, Grenoble - magnetic materials), Wolfgang Schmidt, Julian Eastoe (U. Bristol - magnetic soaps), Isabelle Grillo, Ulli Koester (isotopes for medicine, e.g. lutecium 177), Giovanna Fragneto (cell membranes)
• etc.

This movie was produced by Artesia for the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the divergence of the reactor (31 Aug 2011).

(Format: .mp4; size: 1820x800 WXGA; duration: 38')

What can be seen in that movie:

• The ILL facility, a view of the control room of the reactor presented by Hervé GUYON, level C, etc.
• Instruments: IN5, SALSA, D4, D20, Eddy, BRISP, detector manufacturing, etc.
• Animation showing the journey of neutrons before and inside a three axis spectrometer (TAS): the neutron source (reactor core), the neutron beam, the monochromator, the sample, the analyser and the detection of the neutrons scattered by the sample.

An excerpt with only the animation showing the neutron diffusion process (720x576, 9Mb, 34") is also available here.

For the first time in 8 years, ILL opened its doors to the general public for two full days on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September 2009. We received 694 visitors, many of them expressing their great satisfaction. More than 100 members of staff took part in the organisation.
Here a short film (3'05") in French, broadcast in the local television France3 information session.

• Featuring: Richard WAGNER (Director), Martínez PEÑA JOSÉ LUIS (Associate director)
• The focus is on instrument upgrade and the future of ILL

The ILL Millennium programme was an instrument renewal initiative launched to improve selected instruments during the period 2001 to 2008. The movie was recorded during the second event:

• The millennium symposium & european user meeting, Grenoble, World Trade Center, 27-29 april 2006.

You will see many of the ILL scientists and ILL users which were involved in the project.

• View of the World Trade Center (Grenoble)
  Welcome to the meeting
• Featuring: 0:53 Anne DALE & Dirk DUBBERS (former Dir.), 0:55 Barbara STANDKE, Oliver ZIMMER & ?, Valery NESVIZHEVSKY, 00:56 Anne DALE, Bernard JACROT (former dir.), ? & Valey NESVIZHESKY, 1:14 Alan HEWAT, 1:26 Hans-Jochen LAUTER & Efi Katz, 1:27 Hans-Peter TROMMSDORFF, 1:30 Roland MAY, 1:33 Daniela RUSSO, 1:35 Paolo MUTTY, 1:37 Maurits VAN DER GRINTEN, 1:49 (right) Gerry LANDER, W. PRESS & Jane BROWN, 1:57 ???, Jo ZACCAI, Judith PETERS & Bernard JACROT, 2:03 Werner PRESS, ?, Colin CARLILE (Dir.), and many others.
• The amphitheater.
  2:47 - Welcome by Colin CARLILE (Dir.), 3:28 Dieter RICHTER (Scientific Council), 3:40 Andrew HARRISON (future Assis. Dir.), 3:58 Paolo RADAELLI, 4:15 Peter SCHURTENBERGER, 4:20 & 4:32 Christian VETTIER (Assis. Dir.), 4:23 Christiane ALBA-SIMONESCO (LLB)

Format: .mp4 and .wmv, size: 768x576, duration: 5'15"

The movie gives a detailed presentation of the ILL with a visit the reactor level D, explains the use of neutrons for science and continues with a visit of neutron spectrometers GAMS, IN13, BRISP
Featuring: 2:22 Albert WRIGHT, 4:31 Giovanna FRAGNETO, 4:38 Valery NESVIZHEVSKY, 7:12 GAMS with Paolo MUTTI, 8:51 IN13 with Livia BOVE, 12:33 Laurent CHARLEY, Gabriela ROMAN-ROSS, 14:11 Gabriel CUELLO, 14:59 BRISP with Andrea ORECCHINI.
Note that this movie makes use of excerpts from some of the movies shown here and shows the ILL's scale model.

This movie explains the neutron production and science with animations, show the site and surrounding labs, explains how the ILL works, etc.
Featuring:
2:49 Sax Mason, 3:06 Jean-Marie Bois (EMBL), 4:33 Flores and W. Petry (IN8), 5:06 Anderlor, 5:16 David Gray, Mme Very, 5:21 Berndt Maier, 5:24 France Parisot, 5:35 (left) John Kirby, 6:33 Georges Le Lan, 8:02 the TGV neutron guide, 8:15 the PF2 turbine (UCN source), 8:45 (left) Jose Dianoux, 9:00 1st ILL UCN facility (PN5) with the N. Ramsey & G. Greene experiment about the magnetic moment of the neutron, and others, 9:15: D20 before its banana detector, 9:26 BILL (conversion electron spectrometer), 10:13 Herbert Just, 10:42 diffractometer D10 with Jean Pannetier & Pierre Convert, 11:12 Walter Mampe, 11:27 Winfried Drexel, 11:54 Roland Currat, 12:01 Christian Vettier (future ILL assistant director), 12:07 Paul Frings, 12:38 Bill Stirling (future ILL director) and many others.

Movie (768x576 pixels, duration 14:33; size: 158 Mb)
In English:                 1987-ILL_On_the_frontier_of_science-en.mp4
In French, en Français: 1987-ILL_A_la_source_du_futur-fr.mp4
In German, auf Deutsch: 1987-ILL_A_la_source_du_futur-fr.mp4

The full title is “Die stillen Stars: Nobelpreisträger privat geshen"
When R. Mossbauer (Nobel Price winner) took up the position of director at the ILL, the German television channel ZDF, produced a lenghty report with focusing on the German scientific community who had come to France to work at the RFH, as well on how they experienced the situation. ILL was undoubtedly the first ambitious post-war collaboration between France and Germany and, hence, an excellent subject for a television program.

Movie (768x576 pixels, duration 14:33; size: 158 Mb)
©1973 ZDF, Frank Elstner. The original has been lost by ZDF

Movie in French / en Français: 1973-ILL_TV_allemande_ZDF-Fr.mp4

German verbatim transcript / Wortlaut in deutscher Sprache

French translation / Traduction en Français

Featuring:
Heinz Maier-Liebnitz (1st ILL director), Bernard Jacrot (1st assistant director), Rudolph Mossbauer (2nd director) Tasso Springer (4th director), Reinhart Scherme (11th director), Félix Bertaut, Anton Axmann, José Dianoux, Georg Duessing, Jean-Claude Dureau, Jean-Claude Faudou, Norita Guyot, Anne Hamelin, Bernard Hamelin, Wolfgang Hasenclever, Eberhardt Moll, Konrad Ibel, Jean-Alain Pinston, Franco Rusticelli, Jochen Schneider, Deendente Tochetti, Pierre Vallet, Jacques Villain, etc.

This institutional movie covers the construction period of the High Flux Reactor and early times of the scientific life at the ILL.
This movie was recorded by a CEA team (G. Langlois, G. Marry and A. Muzzin) at the request of ILL and during the construction of the reactor and its first year of operation. In the version shown here, the first 10 minutes of the voiceover are in English but the rest is in French since the original English version of the movie is probably lost.
The times below are for the original French and German versions. For the mixed English/French version, add 3" for the Frech part.
1st part - 1967-1971: the construction
The High Flux Reactor and guide hall construction, the manufacturing of a uranium core, a neutron tube being inserted in the reactor vessel, neutron guides being installed, the old control room, etc. It also shows some of those who had the difficult task to start that new facility.
2:28/13:53 Kleber ARNAL (J.C. FAUDOU listener), 2:32,8:51 Jean-Claude FAUDOU (project office)
2nd part - 1972 - The early scientific life at the ILL
5.09 Michel JACQUEMAIN (reactor and technical services), 5:12 Vera GONTIER (seated), 5:39 (front to back) Bernard Berthelon (shift supervisor), Dominique BOUNOLLEAU (reactor operator), Auguste Colas (mechanical engineer), 5:42 August COLAS (shift mechanical technician), 5:51 Robert PORTE (shift electrical technician), 6:26/9:11/etc. Hartmut FUESS (crystallographer), 7:13 Bruno DORNER (inelastic scattering), 7:37 ???????, 7:59 Walter MAMPE (nuclear physics), 8:24 Rüdiger KOCH (nuclear physics), and some others.
9:14 Powder diffractometer D2 with 9:18 Paul BURLET (crystallographer) and 9:21 René CHAGNON (instrument technician)
9:43 Single crystal diffractometer D8 with 9:56 Alain FILHOL (crystallographer)
10:04 Diffractometer D2, 10:13 diffractometer D8
10:35 diffuse scattering D7 with Willy JUST (physicist) and ???
11:15 Quasi Laue diffractometer D6 (Hedgehog) with Bertram KLAR (physicist)
12:00 Polarised neutron diffractometer D5 with 12:18 Jane Brown (crystallographer)
12:27 Small Angle scattering instrument D11 with Konrad Ibel
15:03 Three Axis Spectrometer IN2 with 15:28 ???? and ????
15:34 Three Axis Spectrometer IN3
15:51 Time-of-Flight spectrometer IN7
16:20 Time-of-Flight spectrometer IN4 with ???
16:53 Time-of-Flight spectrometer IN5 with 17:11 Yvon Blanc (technician)
18:19 Measurement of the Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) of the neutron
19:12 Product fission spectrometer PN1 (Lohengrin)
19:39 Conversion electron spectrometer BILL with Pierre Jeuch (PhD)
20:29 Spectrometers gamma GAMS
21:00 Computer Telefunken TR86 nicknamed Nicole
21:43 (right) John White future ILL assistant director and director (1975-1980)
21:55 Airlock to the experimental hall of the reactor
22:04 Control board of the cold neutron source cryogenic devices
22:12 Used reactor core element
22:48 Ipousteguy sculpture

French version/Version en Français - German version/Deutche version

What can be seen in that movie (the title is in French but the voice is in English):
Earthworks, initial concrete pouring, facility layout, fabrication and installation of light-water and heavy-water tanks, construction of the Level C roof, Reactor core: fabrication of fuel element plates containing uranium and their assembly (CERCA), delivery to the ILL. Installation of the overhead crane, fabrication of the heavy-water tank, construction of the dome roof, the reactor and the peninsula, installation of the heavy-water tank, scientific seminar, start of installations in the experimental hall (Level C), installation of a thimble, the starter chambers, heat exchanger, dam on the Drac River, control rod, filters, pumps, detritiation system, control room, reactor Level D (pool, ⁴He cryogenics, hot cell), core handling, transfer channel, wastes, painting of the dome, neutron guide hall, ILL4 building.