" FRANCE IS A GARDEN " 1953 FRANCE TRAVELOGUE ART, CULTURE & INDUSTRY PARIS VERSAILLES XD26485

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Directed and produced by French writer and director Roger Leenhardt, “France is a Garden” (“La France est un jardin,” 1953) is a color semi-scripted documentary film depicting French cultural life and industry in the early 1950s. Sponsored by Caltex, a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation, the film builds off of a central metaphor that France is a garden proudly tended to and cultivated by the people of France. While the film is originally in French, this particular version is entirely in English.

Film opens, opening credits (0:06). Montage shots emphasizing multi-faceted nature of France: Agrarian farmland, austere mountains, industry, historic craftsmanship (1:10). Potter makes vase outside humble home (2:30). Young women in trendy 50s-era swimwear sunbathe on rocky beach along France’s southern Mediterranean coast (2:52). Camera pans jagged rocky cliffs, fog-shrouded Atlantic Coast (3:17). Different profiles of French women: Madame de Pompadour in lavish 18th-century dress, Paul Dubois “Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc” in Paris (3:48). Reims Cathedral (4:02). Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Café Deux Magots across the street, gathering place for artists and writers (4:19). Neon lit Quartier Pigalle (4:55). Moulin Rouge can can dance performance (5:02). Game of pétanque (5:23). Typical small French village: Buildings with red tile roofs, medieval belfry tower (5:52). Painted portrait Jean Giraudoux, writer who famously said “Frenchmen are gardeners” (6:35). Inside industrial factory in Paris, camera highlights Lathe operator Louis as he finishes day's work (6:49). Pont Neuf bridge (7:27). Louis tends to plot of land in suburbs, plants leeks (8:17). Aerial view of suburban garden and town contrasts outline of Eiffel Tower seen in distance (8:53). Story of another Frenchman, farmer Jacques who finishes up using horse-drawn plow before tending to garden (9:05). Another Frenchman, notary town official rushes home to see flower blooming in family garden (11:04). History of French civilization through the development of gardening practices: Montage images from medieval French illuminated manuscripts depicting advanced gardening practices (13:26). Painted portrait, King Louis XIV “Sun King,” illustrated drawings of Versailles and gardens, landscape architect André Le Nôtre (14:08). Architectural details Versailles palace, tourists enjoying palace grounds and fountains (Fountains of the Fight of the Animals, Neptune fountain) (14:53). Petit Trianon, Neoclassical-style château (16:00). Hameau de la Reine (Queen’s Hamlet) built for Marie Antoinette (16:10). Lake of Ermenonville, burial place Jean-Jacques Rousseau (16:49). Bastille Day festivities (17:05). Police officer directs traffic at busy intersection (18:38). Palais Garnier (18:51). Place Vendôme (19:00). Eiffel Tower, panoramic view of city from 1st floor of tower (19:22). Tuileries Garden (19:50). Louvre Museum exterior and interior galleries: Leonardo da Vinci's “Mona Lisa,” works of Claude Monet etc. (21:11). Édouard Goerg paints garden scene at easel in Jardin du Luxembourg; Kids play with sailboats (21:55). Medici Fountain (22:25). Luxembourg Palace (22:50). Baron Bourgeois’ L’Acteur Grec Statue (23:01). Panthéon (23:04). Parc de Belleville, people gather for La Fête du Muguet (Lily of the Valley Day) (23:19). Scenes from Loire Valley: Château and gardens of Villandry, Château de Saumur (24:59). School children sing nursery rhyme in school yard (27:36). Food culture and french cuisine: French fine dining experience, preparing salad with vinaigrette (29:33). Camera pans vineyard, François Mauriac tastes Sauternes from his vines (30:46). The Carnac stones near Brittany (33:56). Young women server wears traditional Alsatian dress (34:39). Theatre Antique and other Roman ruins in Arles (34:45). Université Montpellier I - Faculty of Medicine (35:07). Jardin des plantes de Montpellier (35:22). Crude oil storage tanks, refinery along Gironde estuary (36:30). Hydroelectric power plant along Gironde estuary, perhaps referring to Blayais Nuclear Power Plant (37:28). View of Luxor Obelisks, Fontaine des Mers at Place de la Concorde (37:49). Closing sequence, snapshots of various “faces” of France (38:05). Closing credits (39:45). Film ends (40:10).

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