La Tour
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.
Director: René Clair
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Details
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release
- Jan 2, 1928
- Runtime
- 14m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Studios
- Albatros
- Director
- René Clair