Panorama of Eiffel Tower
About Panorama of Eiffel Tower
From the Champ de Mars the camera tilts up the Eiffel Tower to the dome and back down, with the 1900 Paris Exposition behind it. People cross in front of the arch. Some notice the camera and mug at it. Lyman H. Howe is visible at about 1:20.
Cast & crew
More about Panorama of Eiffel Tower
James H. White produced it for Edison in July 1900, during the Exposition. Thomas A. Edison copyrighted it on August 9, 1900, as D16385. The Edison catalogue, no. 105 (July 1901), lists it at 90 feet and calls the view a look down the Champ de Mars. The alternate catalogue title is Panoramic View of the Eiffel Tower Taken from the Outside. Charles Musser identifies the up-and-down move as the earliest camera tilt in a surviving Edison film. It is one of thirty titles in the Paris Exposition series, nineteen of them Edison's.
Themes
Look
White's camera is set back from one supporting arch and tilts from the base to the top and down again. Spectators walk through the foreground.
Preservation
A paper print is in the Library of Congress Paper Print Collection.
Notes
- The word panorama is the catalogue's. The camera does not travel sideways. It tilts up and down from one spot.
- Lyman H. Howe, the traveling exhibitor, appears in the crowd.
- The Library of Congress paper print runs about 1 minute 50 seconds.
- Filmed July 1900. Catalogue copy promises the tower "from the base of the dome and return.
Scenes
- The lens climbs the ironwork to the dome and comes back down while the crowd notices it.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-panorama-of-eiffel-tower)
- Library of Congress
