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.
Movie Info
Release Date: 1/2/1928
Runtime: 14 min
Director: René Clair
Writers: René Clair
More Like This
4.5
Zohra
6.3
A Tale of the Wind
5.7
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"
5.7
Main Tera Hero
6.1
Main Krishna Hoon
6.5
Test Pilot
5.8
Maine-Ocean Express
6.7
Test
6.4
Hallow Road
6.3
Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar
5.3
Beethoven's 4th
5.4
Disney Presents: Main Street Electrical Parade - Farewell Season
6.4
Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force
5.6
Hercules in the Underworld
6.7
Sovereign
6.5
Swiped
6.3