Globodrome is an enquiry on the representations of the Earth using a virtual globe, which follows the same itinerary as Phileas Fogg and Passepartout in Around the World in Eighty Days. The itinerary follows the latitudes from East to West and crosses all the meridians of the globe, from London to the Mont-Cenis, from Brindisi to the Red Sea, from Suez Canal to Aden to Socotra, from Mumbai to Kolkota, from the sea of China to Kong Kong, from Taiwan to Yokohama, from the 180th meridian to San Francisco, from Sacramento to Interstate 80, from Salt Lake City to Des Moines, from Chicago to New York, and from Dublin to London.

Walt Disney wanted Disneyland to be the most marvelous place on Earth, and that a train would go around it. As the Carolwood Pacific Railroad, a miniature train based on the model of the firts trains of the conquest of the west, the futuristic project of railroad that would literally go around the world was nicknamed Jules Verne, as a tribute to the Eighty Days. Yet, the managers at Google have found a much easier way: to model an Earth of variable dimensions, so that it could be explored without the need to phisycally move around.

Credits

• Film : 62 min, colour and B & W, Original version English, French subtitles, 2012.
• Directed by : Gwenola Wagon
• Voice : Julian Penney
• Sound : Cédric Moreau
• Music : Geoffroy Wagon
• Thanks to Stéphane Degoutin