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La Tour (1928)
Directed by René Clair
Documentary · 14m
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.
Crew
- Director
- René Clair
- Screenplay
- René Clair
- Director of Photography
- Georges Périnal
Details
- Release date
- 1928-01-02
- Runtime
- 14m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Albatros