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PARIS, MON COPAIN (Paris, my friend)

Pierre LHOMME
1954
Version : French
Duration : 15'
Format : 35 mm. - 16 mm. - Béta Digit. - Mpeg4
Colors
Producer : ARMOR Films - Fred ORAIN
Country France
With Commentaire dit par Jean Claude BRIALY
Music Jean WIENER
Picture Pierre LHOMME
With the participation of Service Cinématographique des F.F.A.
Archive footage - Paris at dawn: sweepers, dustmen, streetlight cleaning,
- Les Halles de Paris and local markets,
- Installing a café terrace,
- Paris as seen from a bateau-mouche,
- The Sorbonne and Boulevard Saint-Michel,
- Saint Germain des Prés and a jazz club,
- Montmartre: fiddler, painter, atmosphere of the district,
- Visit to the Louvre,
- Horse-drawn carriage, traffic and atmosphere on the Champs Élysées.

As the first rays of sunlight gleam through the attic windows, Parisians enjoy their best sleep of the day. The spectacle is in the streets. To those who have come from afar, Paris now offers its charms, its monuments and its districts. To those who are sensitive to the art of living, Paris offers a thousand ways of practising it, through memories of the past, a monument, a perspective, a certain way of being and looking. Beginning with Les Halles, the journey ends at night at Place Pigalle, after the Eiffel Tower, but also the fishermen on the banks of the Seine and the Louvre, Notre-Dame, Luxembourg and its students, and the metro. Images that make Paris so diverse, so unexpected, so endearing.