Rien que les heures
Directed byAlberto Cavalcanti
StarringPhilippe Hériat
Blanche Bernis
Nina Chousvalowa
Clifford McLaglen
Release date
1926
Running time
45 min.
CountryFrance France
LanguagesSilent 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. Cavalcanti made a similar film about Berlin the next year.

Other noted examples of the genre include Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's Manhatta (1921), Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), Andre Sauvage's Etudes sur Paris (1928), and Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera (1929)

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