Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Palace | 1900 | Documentary, Actuality, Short

Title: Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Palace | 1900 | Documentary, Actuality, Short Director: James H. White Studio: Edison Manufacturing Co. Release Date: August 1900 Runtime: 1 Format: 35 mm, black-and-white, silent; 1.33:1; 16 fps Country: United States Language: Silent Genres: Documentary, Actuality, Short --- Chapters: 00:00:00 View toward the Eiffel Tower 00:00:20 Visitors on the Exposition grounds 00:00:45 Distant industrial activity 00:01:05 Final crowd movement and closing view --- Summary: A single, stationary camera positioned at the Trocadéro Palace records the base of the Eiffel Tower during the Exposition Universelle of 1900. Crowds move across the foreground as the frame holds on the tower’s lower structure and surrounding fairgrounds. The short actuality offers an unadorned glimpse of Paris at the turn of the century, emphasizing urban spectacle and everyday motion rather than narrative or performance. --- Background: Produced by the Edison Manufacturing Co. and directed by James H. White, this film is part of Edison’s “Paris Exposition, 1900” series. Shot from a fixed vantage on the Trocadéro, it was photographed in mid-1900 and copyrighted on August 9, 1900. The Library of Congress preserves the title in its Paper Print Collection, with a running time of approximately 1 minute at 16 frames per second. --- Trivia: The film is one of roughly thirty Edison subjects made at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Contemporary descriptions note that the composition shows only up to the first arch of the Eiffel Tower. Some prints were offered at approximately 50 feet in length for exhibitors. The vantage point was the original Trocadéro Palace, a 19th-century structure later replaced by the Palais de Chaillot. --- Public Domain / Rights: Original Release: August 1900 Original Studio / Distributor: Edison Manufacturing Co. Copyright Status: Public Domain Renewal: Unknown --- Hashtags: EiffelTower ParisExposition1900 Edison JamesHWhite SilentFilm PublicDomain Actuality Documentary ShortFilm 1900sCinema This video was sourced from Internet Archive. Originally uploaded by jake@archive.org. https://archive.org/details/silent-eiffel-tower-from-trocadero-palace