Paris 1900 (1947)
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Sarah Bernhardt, Nellie Melba, Claude Dauphin
A documentary retraces life in Paris from 1900 to 1914 through period documents, newsreels, reports, and private footage.
The story
The documentary retraces life in Paris between 1900 and 1914 using authentic period documents, excerpts from more than seven hundred newsreels and reports, and private footage. Editing and text accompany the images.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The documentary retraces life in Paris between 1900 and 1914. The film used authentic period documents and excerpts from more than seven hundred newsreels and reports, as well as private footage. The editing and the text accompanying the images were praised by critics: the film became a reference work. “Cinema is a machine for recovering time in order to lose it more completely. Paris 1900 marks the birth of the tragedy proper to cinema: that of Time.” (André Bazin, “In Search of Lost Time,” in Ecran français, 1947) Excerpts from this documentary appear in Chris Marker’s Level Five (1996).
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