OUTDOOR FILM FESTIVAL - Lyon, Place des Terreaux

Tonight and tomorrow night (Sunday) the city of Lyon is having free publish viewings of movies (which ones I'm not sure). There was seating for maybe 1,500 people in the Place des Terreaux just a short walk from the Hotel de Ville.

What made this screening unusual is that the screen was not one of those meticulously constructed plasma screens that I saw in the public viewing areas of the World Cup. Rather, it was (literally) an inflatable screen, similar to those inflatable romper rooms for kids that you find at amusement parks. Yes, one giant inflatable stand with a giant screen on it, onto which the film was projected. A novel idea, since it can be taken down (no disassembly required!) in case of inclement weather.

I may try to drop in on the public viewing tomorrow night. Tonight I had a soccer game to watch ...

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LINK

Here's a privately-put together site that has some excellent photos of the area near where I live. I live about a leisurely ten-minute walk from Place Louis Pradel, where the Opera (see photos) is located and which features live jazz in the evenings during the summertime.

http://www.lyon-photos.com/diaporama/index_terreaux_7.htm

Notice the statue of the women and the horses by Bartholdi. Most Americans know of Bartholdi for his work on the ... Statue of Libery in New York!

Profile of Bartholdi (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frédéric_Bartholdi