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Paris exposition films

1900 · 7 min Documentary
5.0 / 10 · TMDB

White’s camera offers several 360-degree pans of views of the fairground, then amazes by tilting up and down the Eiffel Tower, and concludes with a stunning tracking shot to the highest point above Paris. Exhibitors freely grouped films into nascent narratives such as those displayed here. - Bruce Posner

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Year 1900
Genre Documentary
Director James H. White
Runtime 7 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.0/10 (1 votes)

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The film constructs its experience purely through camera movement, relying on three technical feats: the 360-degree pan, the vertical tilt, and the tracking shot. It explores the early cinema's power not just to document, but to craft spectacle and sensation.

What lingers after viewing is the visceral thrill of ascension and the abstract beauty of a city transformed into a living map. The apparatus itself becomes the protagonist of this visual poem. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: James H. White

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