Panoramic view of the Place de l'Concorde during Paris Exposition

Panoramic view of the Place de l'Concorde during Paris Exposition 

Scenes filmed from an automobile circling around the Place de la Concorde during the 1900 Paris Exposition. CUs, statues, La Madeleine in BG. Horses and buggies on the street. Panorama of the street and buildings. People stand. A packed wagon passes the archway entrance to the Paris Exposition. MS, young boy in a guard uniform. Carriages pass. Two men link arms and walk away. Young boy returns, smiles. Carriages and a man on a bicycle pass. Man in a hat walking. 

The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from April 15 to November 12, 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next. The fair, visited by nearly 50 million, displayed many machines, inventions, and architecture that are now nearly universally known, including the Ferris wheel, Russian nesting dolls, diesel engines, talking films, escalators, and the telegraphone (the precursor to modern-day sound recording). 

From the Paper Print Collection at Library of Congress