La Tour (1928)

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.

Released Jan. 2, 1928 14 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.1920s, imdb.year-1928, imdb.20th-century

Production Companies: Albatros

Country: France
Languages: No Language, French