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Impressions de France is an attraction located within the [[France]] pavilion in World Showcase.
==Attraction History==
Although Disney had always planned on creating a film for the [[France]] pavilion that would give guests an overview of the country, Impressions de France went through many changes before making its debut. Original models for the France pavilion show the Palais du de Cinema (which houses the film) as being round<ref> http://progresscityusa.com/2010/04/15/elseworlds-epcot-centers-french-circlevision/ </ref>. Initially, WDI President Marty Sklar tasked young filmmakers Bob Rogers and Richard Harper with coming up with a concept for a 20 minute Circle-Vision 360 film for the pavilion <ref name= "funworld"> Miller, Keith. “Record-Setting 'Impressions de France' Turns 35 Along with Epcot.” Funworld, Oct. 2017, pp. 22–23. </ref>, and after a couple of months, the duo was tasked with creating the film. Unlike 360 films that had been created for the [[Canada]] and [[China]] however, Harper and Rogers decided that they wanted to present the film in 200 degrees <ref name="funworld"/>. This would allow guests to sit down while they watched the attraction, while still having the screen cover their peripheral vision.
Before filming on Impressions de France started, director Rick Harper decided to match individual passages of French music, from the late Romantic and early Impressionistic eras, with the proposed filming locations <ref name= "score"> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084124/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv </ref>. While shooting the film, Harper and writer/co-producer Bob Rogers sometimes used a stop watch, or played-back the music on a cassette recorder, to ensure that the shots would line up with the music. After filming the scenes, the shots were matched with the musical pieces that Harper had selected <ref name= "score"/>.
