Rien que les heures explained

Rien que les heures
Director:	Alberto Cavalcanti
Starring:	Philippe Hériat Blanche Bernis Nina Chousvalowa Clifford McLaglen
Runtime:	45 min.
Country:	France
Language:	Silent film French intertitles

Rien que les heures (English: Nothing But Time or Nothing But the Hours) is a 1926 experimental silent film by Brazilian director Alberto Cavalcanti showing the life of Paris through one day in 45 minutes.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Other noted examples of the city-symphony genre include Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's Manhatta (1921), Walter Ruttmann's (1927), Andre Sauvage's Etudes sur Paris (1928), and Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera (1929).^[4]

See also

• List of films made in France 1919-1940

References

1. Web site: Rien que les Heures (1926). https://web.archive.org/web/20160811144121/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a3274db. dead. 11 August 2016. BFI.
2. Web site: Rien Que Les Heures (1926) - Alberto Cavalcanti | Cast and Crew. AllMovie.
3. Web site: Rien Que Les Heures (Nothing But the Hours) (France, 1926) | UC Berkeley Library. www.lib.berkeley.edu.
4. Web site: Where to begin with city symphonies. British Film Institute.