La Tour
192814mNo ratings yet
- Documentary
Overview
A poetic documentary tribute to the famous Eiffel tower, built for the 1889 World Fair and intended to have been destroyed 20 years later. A vocal subset of Parisians (among which, one may surmise, Clair would've been counted) insisted the Tower remain above the River Seine, a continued display of French engineering excellence. Clair makes strategic use of double exposures and dissolves, capturing the mechanical exuberance of the Tower; The great swooping steel latticework edifice a bounding symbol of the modern age.
Keywords
- paris
- france
- eiffel tower
- silent film
- paris, france
- eiffel tower, paris
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 2, 1928
- Original language
- French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Albatros
- Director
- René Clair
- Writer
- René Clair
- Cinematography
- Georges Périnal
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0179489