In the Val des Dix, high in the Swiss Alps, a thousand workers pour concrete for the Grande Dixence dam, a wall rising as tall as the Eiffel Tower. This is Jean-Luc Godard's first film, made before the French New Wave existed, and it plays as a straightforward industrial documentary: cranes, cable trucks, and drilling rigs cut against the scale of the mountains around them. Godard shot the footage while working briefly for the dam's construction company, and the film was later used as promotional material sold to tourists visiting the site. The camera follows the mechanics of the build step by step, from blasting rock to setting forms to pouring concrete in the alpine cold, with narration explaining the engineering as it happens. There is none of the jump cuts or genre play that would define his later work; instead the film is patient and procedural, a record of a massive engineering effort and the men who carried it out, and a curious first credit for one of cinema's most disruptive directors.