This Zecca film, originally 3-4 minutes long, was a follow-up to his Ceq que l'on voit de mon sixième (first filmed in 1901 but not seemingly released until 1903) and , like that film, is a scene of voyeurism. Wheeras, however, the original film showed an old joker on his balcony spying on his neighbours, this film shows a mad old scholar who has climbed the column at the Bastille in order to watch the stars. He begins by surveying Praris but then becomes fascinated by the people at their open windows (paticularly the women undressing). Only a fragment of the film survives (one minute) nand has long been misidentified as the earlier film. Both the beginning, where the man climbs the column and the ending, where the column collapses and the man falls off, are missing.
Review of Bird's Eye View of Paris
