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Excelsior !
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| Titre | 1. Excelsior! H.W LONGFELLOW |
|---|---|
| d'après Henri Wadworth Longfellow, Excelsior, 1841 [poésie] | |
| Distributeur d'origine | Riley Brothers |
| Fabricant | Watsons & Son |
| Date | 1893 |
| Lieu de fabrication | Angleterre (High Holborn, Londres) |
| Description technique | life models, photographie rehaussée de couleurs, plaque carrée fixe |
| Dimensions | L. 83 mm l. 83 mm |
| Cote | PLM-00013-001 (Coll. Cinémathèque française) |
- Excelsior - Partition musicale
- The shades of night were falling fast,
As thro' an Alpine village pass'd
A youth, who bore'mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device, "Excelsior ! Excelsior !"
His brow was sad, his eye beneath,
Flash'd like a falchion from its sheath,
And like a silver clarion rung,
The accents of that unknown tongue,
"Excelsior ! Excelsior !"
In happy homes he saw the light
Of household fires gleam warm and bright,
Above, the spectral glaciers shone,
And from his lips escaped a groan,
"Excelsior ! Excelsior ! "
"Try not the Pass!" the old man said;
Dark low'rs the tempest overhead,
The roaring torrent is deep and wide !
And loud that clarion voice replied,
"Excelsior ! Excelsior !"
"O stay, O stay" the maiden said,
"And rest thy weary head upon this breast !"
A tear stood in his bright blue eye,
But steel he answered with a sigh,
"Excelsior ! Excelsior !"
"Beware the pine tree's withered branch !
Beware the awful avalanche !"
This was the peasant's last Good-night,
A voice replied, far up the height,
Excelsior ! Excelsior ! Excelsior ! Excelsior !
At break of day, as heavenward
The pious monks of Saint Bernard
Utter'd the oft-repeated prayer,
A voice cried thro' the startled air,
"Excelsior ! Excelsior ! "
A traveller, by the faithful hound,
Half-buried in the snow was found,
Sill grasping in his hand of ice
The banner with the strange device,
"Excelsior ! Excelsior !"
There in the twilight cold and gray,
Lifeless, but beautiful he lay,
And from the sky, serene and far,
A voice fell, like a falling star,
Excelsior ! Excelsior ! Excelsior ! Excelsior !...
Excelsior [Musique imprimée]/paroles, H.W. Longfellow ; musique, M.W.Balfe ; - [6] p. (numérotées 116-121) ; 27.8 cm x 21.4 cm. [original]
Les douze vues présentées sont une association de ces deux éditions. Rassemblées par un lanterniste ou un collectionneur afin de reconstituer une projection ordonnée de la mise en image du poème de Longfellow, les différentes plaques retracent fidèlement l'ascension du jeune homme (plaques 2, 3, 4 et 9) malgré les mises en garde qui lui sont faîtes (plaques 5, 6 et 7), et sa volonté d'aller toujours plus haut qui finira par causer sa perte (plaques 10 et 11).
