https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/b656900b-ae17-4e62-acfd-2723b5349882 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Presented by Arthur Mayer and Edward Kingsley, “Paris 1900” is an English adaptation of Pierre Braunberger’s 1947 film “La Belle Epoque (1900-1914)” by John Mason Brown. Narrated by Monty Woolley the film, which consists of a combination of over 700 archival and scripted film clips from the early 20th century, depicts life in Paris and across France during a time of great progress and development, the “Bronze Age.” Featured here is the second-half of the film, detailing changing trends in French culture and politics, as well as the events leading up to World War I. Film opens; clips featuring actress Josette Andriot for commentary on dance trends (0:06). Moulin Rouge Windmill, sequence on what may be seen on stage at theaters like Moulin Rouge featuring extracts from “Pathé Féeries,” stunt shows (2:11). Sarah Bernhardt, death scene from “La Dame aux Camélias” (5:22). Playwright Edmond Rostand (6:04). Henry Monnier (6:20). Firmin Gémier, creation of the National Ambulant Theatre (1911) (6:44). Leading actresses of the day: Régina Badet, Polaire, Cécile Sorel (7:09). Number of ‘films d’art’ further illustrate commentary on Comédie-Française: “La Légende d'Oedipe” (1912), “Hamlet” (1910), “Le Retour d’Ulysse” (1909), “David et Goliath (1910) (8:05). Place de l’Opéra (8:45). Opera singers Nellie Melba, Enrico Caruso (8:55). Gustave Charpentier’s opera “Louise” (9:09). President Armand Fallières at event (9:34). Léon Bonnat with 1907 portrait of Armand Fallières (9:40). Art and “Impressionism:” Sculptor Auguste Rodin at home in Meudon (9:38). Pierre-Auguste Renoir (10:18). Claude Monet painting lilies in garden at Giverny (10:50). New styles of music: Composer Claude Debussy, Mary Garden (11:26). Author André Gide at Parc des Buttes Chaumont (12:30). Exterior Luxembourg Palace and grounds of Jardin du Luxembourg, Paul Valéry (12:44). Guillaume Apollinaire moving picture (13:00). Picasso self-portrait (13:08). Henri Matisse “The Dessert: Harmony in Red” (13:18). Basilica of Sacré Coeur de Montmartre (13:34). French astronomer Camille Flammarion inside observatory; Crowds gather to observe Solar eclipse of May 9, 1910 (13:40). Aviation: Franz Reichelt demonstrates backpack-mounted parachute by jumping from Eiffel Tower (14:24). Louis Blériot completes first flight across English Channel, celebratory parade in Paris, President Fallières applauds achievement (15:29). Keeping the peace in Europe: Hague Convention 1907 (16:24). King of Spain Alfonso XIII (16:38). Berlin King Edward VII meets nephew Wilhelm II, Brandenburg Gate (16:41). Queen Wilhelmina of Holland meets President Fallières (17:03). Andrew Carnegie meets President Fallières (17:41). French politicians and civil servants: Jean Jaurès, Théophile Delcassé, Aristide Briand, Marcel Cachin (17:51). Crowds protest, hidden side of “Belle Epoque,” scenes of life in Slums of Paris, crowds gather outside soup kitchens (18:56). Contrast scenes of high society opulence and excess with scenes of mass protest in streets against living conditions (20:21). Police hunt for thief and assassin Jules Bonnot; Accomplices rounded up and transported by boat to penal colony Devil's Island (21:26). Industry: Interior view of factories, men working on laying railroads, founding of labor and trade unions (24:22). Railway strikes, tracks guarded by soldiers (25:30). Paul Déroulède leads pro-war rallies (26:15). Fading dreams of Peace: Maurice Barrès speech in Strasbourg (27:02). President Fallières hunting at Rambouillet, cut to Wilhelm II also hunting (27:51). Installation ceremony of new President Raymond Poincaré (28:14). War and Conflict begin: Troops in Portugal, footage of destroyed cities and towns across the Balkans and Greece (29:04). Huge official review of armies, attended by military attachés, resemble military parades (30:10). England, Russia, France become allies; Official state visits (30:38). New military recruits from France’s colonial holdings arrive in the metropole for training; Training and military exercises Wilhelm II’s army (31:28). Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo; troops reviewed before leaving for the front (32:11). Crowds protest outside Tsar Nicholas II Winter Palace in St. Petersburg (32:40). Call for draft and military service across France, armies mobilize; Men on the march in France, Belgium, England, Russia (33:46). Closing credits (36:54). End (37:04). 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