189212In February, the Paris City Council set up a 20-member investigation committee, whose main task was to decide the venue of this World Expo in France: Paris, suburbs or other provinces. Various opinions have emerged. Some people suggested that the Expo be located outside the high wall of the capital, but the official responded: "Holding an Expo in Paris can also promote the silk industry in Lyon, the ceramics industry in limoges, the glass manufacturing industry in the north and the textile industry in the east. Everyone should talk more about the benefits of the World Expo to other provinces. If anyone can complain, it should only be the middle class in Paris. They may be disturbed by the hustle and bustle of Paris during the World Expo, and they will also receive relatives and friends from other provinces in Paris. "
1886165438+1October 13, and the venue is located in Paris' Ares Square. Opponent Belges even proved that Ares Square was too narrow by mathematical calculation, while supporter alford Reed Picard defended the site selection with aesthetic concept, saying that beauty should be more important than area. Decisions about Expo affairs are always accompanied by controversy, as it was a century ago.
1900 On April 14, President émile Loubet of the Third Republic of France cut the ribbon for the opening of the World Expo. The number of visitors to this World Expo exceeded 50 million, when the population of France was about 40 million. There are 8,300 exhibitors, of which French enterprises account for 60%.
China is adjacent to Russia. The Russian Pavilion built the Moscow Railway Station and installed an 80-meter-long sleeper train. 120 meters The scenery outside the window moves outside the train at a speed of 4 meters per second, and the most beautiful scenic spots along the way will be presented to passengers one by one. Passengers can enjoy a pleasant journey from Moscow to Beijing in 30 minutes. Crossroads, telephone poles, fences, etc. Moving forward quickly makes people feel like they are really on the train. In order to make the effect of the trip more realistic, passengers will feel slight vibration and bumps at the beginning of the trip, and then gradually stabilize.
After the opening of the World Expo, visitors jostled each other, and various tour guides came out one after another. Practical guides in Kong Di described the Expo as a city within a city. From the text, people today can vaguely feel the visit at that time.
In 1897, Grimoin Sang Song, a Frenchman, invented a kind of "cinema Orama", which was patented just two years after the film came out. Color Song thinks that movies use small screens, so it is difficult to play its due practical value. A cylindrical screen is proposed to realize the full-field projection of movie images. In order to feast people's eyes, Sesson used 65,438+00 cameras connected together to shoot panoramic movies. In the square of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, he designed a large-scale screening hall similar to a racetrack, about 10 meter high, with a curtain at the top and a circular screen on the inner wall with a white curtain 100 meter long. In the center of the hall is a huge balloon basket, and 10 projectors connected by chains are arranged in a circle under the basket.
This is a memorable moment. 1900 In the lobby in front of the Eiffel Tower Square, the first curtain film in human history, Hydrogen Balloon Crossing Europe and Asia, was shown. On the circular screen, the city scenery of Paris, Brussels, London, Barcelona and other places appeared in turn. People can imagine that this new form of screen film appeared just four to five years after the birth of the world film, which is a great pioneering work.