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Le Métro (1934)

Le Métro poster
Directed by
Henri Langlois, Georges Franju
Genre
documentary film
Country
France
Runtime
8 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a short silent film from 1934 showing trains moving on the elevated parts of the Paris Metro. It consists almost entirely of shots of the trains in motion.

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What happens

Le Métro est un court métrage réalisé en 1934 par Georges Franju et Henri Langlois. Il s'agit d'un film muet que Georges Franju et Henri Langlois ont réalisé avec une caméra d'emprunt et trois bobines de film de 16 mm. Il est composé presque exclusivement de plans de trains en mouvement, le plus souvent dans les parties aériennes du métro. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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