id: Unidentified Film No. 141
director: Unknown year: 1910-1912 country: France alternative titles: Eine Besteigung des Eiffelturms in Paris A ride on the Eiffel Tower elevator. Visitors on the viewing platform. View of Paris, including the Seine river (panning shot, mask) [frame scan 1]. Life at the foot of the tower. Tourists board the elevator. Elevator takes off. View of Paris from the moving elevator [frame scan 2]. IT: Auf der ersten Platform (On the first-level platform). View of Paris (panning shot, binocular-shaped mask). Tourists on the platform [frame scan 3]. A woman with a child looking through a telescope [frame scan 4]. Another ride on the elevator. Parisian houses as far as the eye can see (panning shot). Jeanpaul Goergen, Deutsche Kinemathek, 06.10.2009 Production Company: Pathé Frères, Paris (?)
Length: 91m Format: 35mm, 1.33:1 Picture/Sound: coloured, silent Notes: Red-orange tint; German version. ![]() No proof, but of the various options Eclipse 1910 looks best to me. It is not a Pathé, and the Gaumont 1912 migth be about the flight / parachutiste from the Tour Eiffel. Also the little I see of the women's dresses and hatss seem more like 1910 then 1913. mariann lewinsky, 14.08.2010 Labelled "Pathé 1912" by the Hipp film archive.
Two films come into question: 1) Besteigung des Eiffelturmes in Paris (FR, 1910, Eclipse, OT: Une Ascension à la tour Eiffel) or 2) Eiffelturm (FR, 1912, Gaumont, OT: La Tour Eiffel) Details according to the Siegen Cinema Databases Jeanpaul Goergen, Deutsche Kinemathek, 06.10.2009 The views expressed here belong to the author of the comment and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Deutsche Kinemathek.
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