CANNES:
Guess how many metres of red carpet were used during the Cannes
film festival? If you guessed 6,000 metres you were right on
the button. The staff who work at the Palais des Festivals Grand
Theatre Lumiere where the main competition screenings are held
change close to 200 metres of the red carpet at least three
times daily after almost every major evening screening. For
the 60th anniversary of the festival the Palais des Festivals'
management chose a four metre wide bright red carpet with the
sides being adorned with a theatre red carpet.
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RED CARPET: Where the stars and star struck love to tread
at Cannes. |
Each
carpet change between the performance takes about 30 minutes,
with the roads holding the carpet being removed and the carpet
itself being junked immediately. The hardest part for the
people who lay out the carpet is making it iron straight in
the time they have to remove the old one and lay out the new
one.
But
it's something that has to be done, so it is. For clearly,
it is the star of the festival as it is the most photographed
red carpet in the world. Apart from the stars themselves,
the red carpet at Cannes is clearly the other star of the
festival.
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