{"id":7069,"date":"2010-04-19T03:24:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T02:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7069"},"modified":"2010-04-20T04:16:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T03:16:20","slug":"exposition-universelle-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/04\/19\/exposition-universelle-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposition Universelle films"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Exposition entrance at the Place de la Concorde.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, films of the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900. This week I’ve been reading Philippe Jullian’s book about the Exposition (more about the admirable Monsieur Jullian later) and it was only when he mentioned early cinema screenings as one of the entertainments that I realised I hadn’t looked for films of the Exposition itself. YouTube has the goods, of course, and those goods are unavoidably primitive given the age of the prints and the infancy of the medium. Quality isn’t the point, however, what matters is the thrill of looking back 110 years to see these fleeting structures and their visitors. Most of the footage seems to have been filmed by the Edison Company and the filmmakers conveniently let us know that it was the month of August. According to Jullian, Paris was suffering from a heatwave at the time but you wouldn’t know it from the way everyone is dressed although most of the women (and some of the men) are carrying parasols. In addition to the period footage, there’s also the channel of a 3D animator<\/a> who’s been creating computer models of the buildings. I’ve thought for some time that these vanished expositions could be resurrected using 3D modelling so it’s encouraging to find someone doing exactly that.<\/p>\n

The films:
\n\u2022 Thomas Edison’s L’ Exposition Universelle de 1900 \u00e0 Paris<\/a> | A compilation of the shorts with intertitles.
\n\u2022 Panoramic view of the Place de la Concorde<\/a>
\n\u2022 Esplanade des Invalides<\/a>
\n\u2022 Panorama from the Moving Boardwalk<\/a>
\n\u2022 Eiffel Tower lift<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Palace of Electricity<\/a><\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> The Edison shorts and some other Exposition clips not listed above can also be found in the Edison film archive<\/a> at the Library of Congress. You need to go to this page<\/a> and use the search term “paris” to receive a list. They’re still low-res, unfortunately, but at least the files haven’t been put through YouTube’s compression filters.<\/p>\n

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The Palace of Electricity.<\/em><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Exposition jewellery<\/a>
\n\u2022 Exposition Universelle catalogue<\/a>
\n\u2022 Exposition Universelle publications<\/a>
\n\u2022 Exposition cornucopia<\/a>
\n\u2022 Return to the Exposition Universelle<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Palais Lumineux<\/a>
\n\u2022 Louis Bonnier\u2019s exposition dreams<\/a>
\n\u2022 Exposition Universelle, 1900<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Palais du Trocad\u00e9ro<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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