COMMENT LES PAUVRES MANGENT À PARIS
T. ted.: Wie die Armen in Paris Essen; Prod.: Pathé (No. 3569). 35mm. L.: 84 m. D.: 4’30” a 16 f/s. Bn.
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T. it.: Italian title. T. int.: International title. T. alt.: Alternative title. Sog.: Story. Scen.: Screenplay. F.: Cinematography. M.: Editing. Scgf.: Set Design. Mus.: Music. Int.: Cast. Prod.: Production Company. L.: Length. D.: Running Time. f/s: Frames per second. Bn.: Black e White. Col.: Color. Da: Print source
Film Notes
Half documentary and half staged with actors, this film takes us to the poor in Pathé’s own city, Paris. «Poverty, which – usually in the person of a scary tramp – haunts so many contemporary tales, has now ceded its place to wretchedness of a very different character. Some of these images give us the same kind of little shock at seeing reality as one might when holding a cheap colour print up against a photograph by Jean Eugène Atget.» (Roland Cosandey, Welcome Home, Joye! “Film um 1910”, 1993, p. 62)