Preceded by short: Paris Eats Its Bread (Paris mange son pain) (Pierre Prévert, France, 1958). With commentary by Jacques Prévert. "Pierre Prévert did not make comic films but droll films with a sad foundation. (Of the two Prévert brothers) he is certainly the tenderer, the gentler." (Louis Chavance) The brothers collaborated most famously on the surreal farce L'Affair est dans le sac. Pierre Prévert was closely associated with Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française. Photographed by Billy Villerbue. (18 mins, In French only, B&W, 35mm) (La Lutte pour la vie). This tale of a resourceful young man who loses his job as a factory designer, quits the city for the country, and eventually makes his way into the family of a prominent Paris industrialist, might naturally have appealed to French cinema pioneer Ferdinand Zecca, a commercial filmmaker from the start whom Georges Sadoul describes as a "wily fox." Jean, more earnest than wily, is a personable hero played with great naturalism by René Alexandre; his journey from factory to village to city gives us a glimpse of what it took to "make it" in pre-WWI France. Moreover, it gives the filmmakers enormous breadth of background material, and so much movement one forgets that the camera itself doesn't "travel." Shots of village life include a parade of peasant costumes and dances while the farmhands organize against the industrious newcomer, who steals a suit from a scarecrow and packs off for Paris. There, on a slight plot pretext, we take off with Jean on a most extraordinary tour of the city, a virtual documentary of its streets of horse-drawn carriages and motorcars, its monuments and most of all its mood.