REPORREPORT
THE EIFFEL TOWER
VIDEO&VISUALS COMPANY: CHRISTIE
LOCATION: PARIS, FRANCE
To breathe life into the open-air event to celebrate the Eiffel its projectors meet the exacting requirements for its opera-
Tower’s 120th birthday, called “The Beautiful Tower”, Paris City tions worldwide, sometimes in extreme conditions,” explains
Hall called on the expertise of Groupe-F to create the stage de- Philippe Gaborit, operations manager at E/T/C Paris. “When we
sign and pyrotechnics, and on Cosmo AV to produce the graphi- were out scoping the terrain with Cosmo-AV during the winter
cal and artistic elements projected onto the tower’s surface. in the run-up to the event, we already knew that we would go
Groupe-F’s choice naturally settled on E/T/C Paris’s expertise to for the high-power projection solutions from Christie, such as
illuminate and animate one of the world’s most famous towers the Roadster S+16K, HD18K and Roadie 25K,” adds Jean-Marc
using high-power 3-chip DLP projectors from Christie, a long- Constantien, services director at E/T/C Paris. “Accurate optical
standing partner for the technical events specialist. The message surveys enabled Cosmo-AV to take snapshots of the tower in
underlying the show was poetry, cultural diversity, harmony and order to determine the masks needed for the projection, while
peace... before rounding off with a tribute to the engineering allowing E/T/C to test the illumination rendering of the Christie
genius of Gustave Eiffel, the brains behind the iconic structure projectors from a distance of some 300 metres.” All Christie
gracing the French capital. E/T/C Paris was in charge of bring- projectors were divided into eight clusters of three to four per-
ing Gustave Eiffel’s creation to life, and the stakes were high. In fectly aligned and superimposed units according to the surface
particular, they had to find an effective way of illuminating the of the tower that would receive the projection, both horizon-
tower with the most powerful projectors in the market, while tally and vertically. This solution ensured that the illumination
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offering unrivalled reliability. “Developing and staging this type was more than powerful enough from a distance of nearly 400
of show demands the full skills of the E/T/C teams, as well as the metres, given the angle of elevation of the projection beam for
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quality and reliability inherent in the Christie range of projectors. the upper sections of the metal tower.
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In addition to the images screened on the Eiffel Tower, which
will remain a highlight of 2009, E/T/C chose Christie, because
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