Postscript Post - The End of an Era, the 1915 Fire at Le Moulin Rouge
The old Moulin Rouge burnt down in February 1915, ending the era I/we time-travelled to a couple of posts ago.
It's been rebuilt of course but he new one is, well, more than a bit ho hum ... it's just that its time of the past.
The Can Can can no longer be executed as the height of eroticism! It'd be like the very low voltage charge generated by raising one of the legs of your boardies ... to reveal what's just above the knee.
Curiously (though maybe not so curiously) the most poignant image in this footage for me is of the chandeliers ...
... still valiantly hanging on in all the ruination ...
A great metaphor for life if ever there was one!
Nick,
ReplyDeleteThat photo with the chandeliers and the open sky behind them is a classic. How appropriate that the fire happened at the beginning of the war. Goetterdaemmerung indeed.
Thank for your dedication!
hey paul
ReplyDeletethe chandeliers just yell out to be the head image of any post on the fire - and yes in 1915 a symbol of things coming - and ending
the post seemed a just conclusion to a (tiny) doco i've been playing round with - on la goulue (louise weber, 1866-1929) - the famed can can star of the moulin rouge - based around footage found of her in old age in the 1920s - she does a few steps for the camera and reveals some of the bigness of her style
good to hear as usual
nick