Paris in 1900 - Exposition Universelle [Rare Footage]

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The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next. The style that was universally present in the Exposition was Art Nouveau.


Exposition Universelle viewMore than 50 million people attended the exhibition (a world record at the time), yet it still failed to turn a profit, costing the French government 2,000,000 Francs. The fair included more than 76,000 exhibitors and covered 1.12 square kilometres of Paris.

The Exposition Universelle was where talking films and escalators were first publicized, and where Campbell's Soup was awarded a gold medal (an image of which still appears on its label). At the Exposition Rudolf Diesel exhibited his diesel engine, running on peanut oil. Brief films of excerpts from opera and ballet are apparently the first films exhibited publicly with projection of both image and recorded sound. The Exposition also featured many panoramic paintings and extensions of the panorama technique, such as the Cinéorama, Mareorama, and Trans-Siberian Railway Panorama.


Alexandre III bridgeThe exhibition lasted from 14 April until 10 November 1900. A special committee, led by Gustave Eiffel, awarded a gold medal to Lavr Proskuryakov's project for the Yenisei Bridge in Krasnoyarsk.

A number of Paris' most noted structures were built for the Exposition, including the Gare de Lyon, the Gare d'Orsay (now the Musée d'Orsay), the Pont Alexandre III, the Grand Palais, La Ruche, and the Petit Palais. The first line of the Paris Metro also began operation to co-incide with the Exposition. Although completed in just 18 months, it was nevertheless slightly late, taking its first paying passengers to the Ancien Palais du Trocadéro site on 19 July 1900.

Part of the Exposition was the Second Olympic Games, which were spread over five months. So unnoted were these games that many athletes died unaware that they had been Olympians. The games also marked the first participation by female athletes and, in such sports as tennis, football (soccer), polo, rowing and tug of war, teams were multinational.

A Human Zoo was present at the exposition.

The Finnish Pavilion at the Exposition was designed by the architectural firm of Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen. It was published in Dekorative Kunst 3 (1900)

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[VentduSud13]

Superbe illustration musicale, alors là je dis bravo., vraiment !

Tous ces gens sont morts et pourtant nous les voyons rires, marcher, Ça nous ramène à notre finitude et je dois avouer que c'est très émouvant de regarder toutes ces personnes surgissant du passé avec leur habitudes, leur croyances, et avec la musique j'en ai presque la larme à l'oeil...

Merci Metaldrake c'était une super idée de partager ceci avec nous !

ciao et bravo encore

[MetalDrake]

@VentduSud13 Merci beaucoup pour ton commentaire, c'était le but ;)

[alorki1947]

Pourquoi le commentaire ci-dessous publié il y a un an -avec 48 points- a été supprimé des "commentaires les mieux notés" ?? Cela fait 3 fois que je pose la question à Youtube. Dois-je en conclure que ce commentaire a été censuré ?

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Ma France, ma pauvre France, elle ne ressemble plus à rien aujourd'hui, elle dépérit, elle se meurt. Nos anciens ont fait la guerre pour la défendre et aujourd'hui on laisse entrer l'ennemi.

VIVE LA FRANCE.

alorki1947 il y a 1 an 48

[OperaMystery80]

Paris looks nothing like this anymore; if the people of Paris in 1900 were to take a time machine to 2011 they would most likely feel they aren't even in Paris. Only the landmarks remain - Eiffel Tower, Arch De Triumph, Notre Dame, Paris Garnier Opera, but a lot of the rest of the city would look foreign to them. Paris is a city that has been transforming itself ever since Baron Eugene Haussman "modernized it" under Napoleon the 3rd in the 1850's.

[randrianabel]

vivre à cette époque?pour travailler douze heures par jour sans aucune couverture sociale être et surtout 2 guerres mondiales(si je survis à la première.....)

[ixoralover]

RIP to everybody in this video....

[ebastianlar718s]

I want this video on my F233 phone.

[WPLJTV]

3:36 Was that someone on a motorized vehicle? No horse in front!

[HomburghGuy]

Other filmmakers such as Alice Guy and the Lumiere Brothers shot films at the 1900 expo as well. Their image quality is a trillion times better than Edison's but they're not easily available to the general public which is a shame.

[chrisz78]

@clairemdc That "Black Face" entertainment is demeaning to Blacks is a Socialist invention. Would French or US Whites have paid for products advertised this way, or paid money to see minstrel shows, if they had found disgusting what they see? No, they ENJOYED the exotic sight, it brought a little fun into their lives. But what the politically correct Commies of today want to tell us that we must not have fun, that we must be ashamed to be White. Now THAT'S demeaning and racist!

[chrisz78]

@Entity005 Don't feel embarrassed - every honest person with eyes to see and a heart to feel would share your feelings. But nowadays we have "democracy" and "equality" which means that the largest mob of idiots rules. No style, no aristocracy, no sense of humility among the intelectually challenged (aka proletarians). Back then people were industrious and quiet, not showy and vulgar as today. They listened to opera not gangsta rap, they talked proper French not nigger slang...

[lapacker]

Of course there were Muslims in Paris in 1900. They'd been there for quite a few decades due to the colonisation of Northern Africa by France.

[97minas]

very very very OLD

[MRrastafaril]

@b1naryd1g1t5 I think I was a few in there actually..