Paris sights and the Folies Bergere
Creator(s)
- Ms. Louise A. Rosen
- Julius Blatt (Camera Operator)
- Julius Blatt (Subject)
Biographical History
Julius Blatt (1917-2002, Jewish) was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army from 1942 to 1946. He served as Plans and Intelligence Officer. He led an advance party into Nuremberg and into Munich to obtain National Socialist Party secret documents and for this service was awarded a Bronze Star medal. He was also part of the crew that liberated Dachau. After combat, he served as commander in Paris controlling all prisoner of war labor - 60,000 personnel - in all warehouse, ordnance, and engineer shops. He lived in England after the war. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Scope and Content
Paris street with crowds of pedestrians moving on the sidewalk. Cars drive along the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Pans left on the crowded sidewalk. One woman speaks to two men in the street. An American soldier enters and exits a public restroom, smiling at the camera. WS of the Arc de Triomphe. 01:01:13 Julius Blatt walks towards the Arc de Triomphe as the camera pans left, tilts up, pans left and tilts back down to focus on Julius again. Julius walks across the busy street, looking at the camera as bikers and cars go past. Julius lights a cigarette with the Eiffel Tower in the background. He walks towards the camera smoking the cigarette. The camera tilts up on the Eiffel Tower. Henri Bouchard’s Apollon Musagète [Apollo with a Lyre] at the Palais de Chaillot. Camera pans up on a quote which says “Il dépend de celui qui passe - Que je sois tombe ou trésor - Que je parle ou me taise - Ceci ne tient qu' à toi - Ami n' entre pas sans désir” (It depends on who passes, Whether I be tomb or treasure; Whether I speak or am silent; This one depends on you. Friend, do not enter without desire). Camera tilts up from the gardens to the tip of the Eiffel tower. WS of the Palais de Chaillot. Shot pans left on a dense growth of trees. 01:04:32 Tuileries Garden with a view of the Louvre Palace on the left. Another angle of the Tuileries Garden from across the street. Treetops with the tip of the Eiffel tower barely visible in the distance. People exiting the Tuileries through the gates. Multiple shots of the Tuileries from the Rue de Rivoli. 01:06:54 Decorated theater curtains with an orchestra conductor below. Man in costume in front of a fairgrounds backdrop. Women dancing around a stage in costume and some in minimal clothing, likely at the Folies Bergère. Costume and backdrop changes. The cast stands on stage, with one woman in a large ballgown holding a heart-shaped paris scepter at center stage. Curtains close. Paris waterways. Image of boats overlayed on image of a bridge.
Subjects
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
- LIBERATORS
- WOMEN
- THEATERS
- MUSEUMS
- CROWDS
- EIFFEL TOWER
- ARC DE TRIOMPHE
- RIVERS
Places
- Paris, France
Genre
- Amateur.
- Film