Changes

Although Disney had always planned on creating a travelogue movie for the France pavilion, Impressions de France went through many changes before making it's its debut. Original models for the France pavilion, showed show the Impressions de France theater Palais du Cinema (which houses the film) as being round. This has led to speculation that like Canada and China, the concept early concepts for the France film may have called for a Circle Vision 360 filmformat.

Instead of being a Circle Vision 360 film, it was decided that Impressions de France would be shown opened on October 1, 1982 with a 200 degree screen. This allowed The width of the screen allows guests to sit down while watching the film, although the screen still covered covers their peripheral vision. Initially, Disney film crews shot 140 different locations for the film, although before this number was cut down to 46 for the film's final cutversion. At filming was complete, Buddy Baker recorded the soundtrack with the National Philharmonic Orchestra at the Abbey Road Studio in London. Since its opening Impressions de France made it's debut with the rest of [[Epcot]] on October 1, 1982, and it has not seen any significant changes since.

Impressions de France shows guests showcases 46 locations in France, set to classical music arranged by Buddy Baker. Claude Gobet gives guests sparse narration during the film. The scenes (in order) that appear in Impressions de France are: