Panorama of the moving boardwalk at the Paris Exposition

Panorama of the moving boardwalk at the Paris Exposition 

Panoramic footage of the new moving platform installed on the boardwalk at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Children stand making playful gestures. One boy rubs a piece of paper on his forehead and hat. Some people walk on the platform, others stand still, others move off the boardwalk. Boy pulls a man off. A man hops on, takes his hat off, and smiles. Woman gets on the platform and smiles at the children. Man gets off the platform and cuffs a boy on the side of the head. CUs, people on the platform. 

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