''Rien que les heures'' (English: ''Nothing But Time'' or ''Nothing But the Hours'') is a 1926 silent city symphony film by Brazilian director

Alberto Cavalcanti Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti (February 6, 1897 – August 23, 1982) was a Brazilian-born film director and producer. He was often credited under the single name "Cavalcanti". Early life Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a p ...

showing the life of

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

through one day in 45 minutes. Other noted examples of the city symphony genre include

Charles Sheeler Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 – May 7, 1965) was an American artist known for his Precisionism, Precisionist paintings, commercial photographer, commercial photography, and the 1921 avant-garde film, ''Manhatta'', which he made in collaboratio ...

and Paul Strand's '' Manhatta'' (1921),

Walter Ruttmann Walter Ruttmann (28 December 1887 – 15 July 1941) was a German cinematographer and film director, an important German abstract experimental film maker, along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger. He is best known for dir ...

's '' Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis'' (1927), Andre Sauvage's ''Etudes sur Paris'' (1928), and

Dziga Vertov Dziga Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman; – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary ...

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Man With a Movie Camera ''Man with a Movie Camera'' is an experimental 1929 Soviet silent documentary film, directed by Dziga Vertov, filmed by his brother Mikhail Kaufman, and edited by Vertov's wife Yelizaveta Svilova. Kaufman also appears as the titular Man. V ...

'' (1929).

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* 1926 films French silent feature films Films directed by Alberto Cavalcanti Documentary films about Paris 1926 documentary films Black-and-white documentary films French documentary films French black-and-white films 1920s French films 1920s French-language films French-language documentary films {{1920s-France-film-stub

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