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La Jete French pronunciationla te The Jetty, here referring to an outdoor viewing pier at an airport, is a 1962 French science fiction featurette by Chris Marker. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a postnuclear war experiment in time travel. It isminutes long and shot in black and white. It won the Prix Jean Vigo for short film.

A man Davos Hanich is a prisoner in the aftermath of World War III in postapocalyptic Paris where survivors live underground in the Palais de Chaillot galleries. Scientists research time travel, hoping to send test subjects to different time periods to call past and future to the rescue of the present. They have difficulty finding subjects who can mentally withstand the shock of time travel. The scientists eventually settle upon the prisoner his key to the past is a vague but obsessive memory from his prewar childhood of a woman Hlne Chatelain he had seen on the observation platform the jetty at Orly Airport shortly before witnessing a startling incident there. He had not understood exactly what happened but knew he had seen a man die.After several attempts, he reaches the prewar period. He meets the woman from his memory, and they develop a romantic relationship. After his successful passages to the past, the experimenters attempt to send him into the far future. In a brief meeting with the technologically advanced people of the future, he is given a power unit sufficient to regenerate his own destroyed society. ........

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