Paris Exposition, 1900 (film series)

[1] In addition to the Paris Exposition, 1900 series proper, Méliès also sold two films, filmed on the River Seine in 1899, showing pre-opening work progressing on Exposition buildings on both sides of the river.

The circular panoramas of the Palais des Beaux Arts, Les Invalides, the Champs de Mars, Trocadéro, and the Pont d'Iéna were made by placing the camera on a specially built Gaumont turning platform.

[2] Though unconnected to Méliès's enterprise, another early filmmaker, the Edison Manufacturing Company producer James Henry White, also filmed scenes from the Exposition in July 1900.

White's camera was equipped with a newly designed panning-head tripod, allowing for numerous panoramas from stationary vantage points.

[3] The Méliès scholar John Frazer reported in 1979 that the Paris Exposition, 1900 series survived in a private collection,[2] but a 2008 Méliès filmography prepared by Jacques Malthête labels all seventeen films, as well as the two earlier films showing work in progress, to be presumed lost.