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.
Director:
René Clair
Writer:
René Clair
| Directing | René Clair | Director |
| Writing | René Clair | Screenplay |
| Camera | Georges Périnal | Director of Photography |
