City out of time
Description
This Colin Low documentary from 1959 depicts Venice in all its splendor. In the tradition of Venetian painter Canaletto, the film captures the great Italian city's elusive beauty and fabled landscapes, where spired churches and turreted palaces soar into a blue Mediterranean sky. Narration by William Shatner.
Runtime
15 min
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
1959
Database
Alexander Street
Direct Link
Similar Films
Rogier van der Weyden. St. John Altarpiece
Inventing a National Style
Planes and Space, How Will We Fly Tomorrow? (Shapers of Tomorrow)
Piero della Francesca
Britain: Blood and Stee. Engineering an Empire
In the wing-beat of the swans, 1963
Choosing Sustainable Materials
Hadrian
Mustang. The kingdom of peasant painters
Sunday morning. Picasso's women. Love and art
Viggo Johansen
Mediacité. Architectures—Achievements in Modern Architecture
New York
Beaubourg
Sicily, Treasures of Baroque Art