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 wouldve 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