| EXPO '67 - FIRST IMPRESSIONS A fascinating whirlwind tour around the international pavilions of Canada's Expo '67. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6078 |
| Catalog #: | 88154 | |
| Clip Number: | 88154-3 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 657 | |
| Timecode: | 01:30:21 - 01:35:19 | |
| Location: | Montreal, Canada. | |
| Year Shot: | 1967 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | EXHIBITIONS: World's Fairs LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: Canada, Quebec, Montreal | |
| Description: | Other pavilions are seen; Canada has a giant inverted pyramid that people walk down into or travel down in lifts - brilliant! Pavilions for Ethiopia and Canadian pulp and paper are seen. People use a futuristic telephone box. CU The futuristic telephone kiosk people phoning one boy waiting. CU Some futuristic sculpture near French pavilion. Pavilions for Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Ceylon, Burma and Thailand. The entrance of Trinidad and Tobago pavilion people leaving. CU Of a cactus-like decoration at Trinidad and Tobago pavilion entrance two trains passing. CU A sign saying 'Jamaica' and palm leaves by it. MS Waitress with tray of drinks of drinks going into a pavilion. MS The Ceylon pavilion flags flying one or two people going in. CU The ceramic display in front of it people passing. CU A mural on pavilion showing birds strange figures cranes and so forth and the word Ceylon. The Burma pavilion people passing. C.S. People in restaurant inside Burma pavilion. Thai pavilion seen in b.g. The Thai pavilion. C.S. Another angle of Thai pavilion. LS Two Thai girls walking past ornamental lake the Thai pavilion and a colorful round cinema pavilion multicolored circular maybe called Keleodoscone. Several shots of a display/building called Habitat; it looks like futuristic a block of flats arranged higgledy-piggledy. MS Habitat 67 looking like building blocks. CU One cluster of habitat. C.S. Two clusters of Habitat. Various shots from the monorail, passing the Russian and West German pavilions; the monorail train enters the huge dome of America. Views inside the dome shows a space capsule and several items of space machinery and people milling about. MS Parachute at the top of the American pavilion. C.S. People on escalator on the pavilion going up. MS Posters and paintings seen from escalator as we rise. CU Of the first space capsule against glass dome of pavilion. CU Of a man photographing it. CS. Of the dome showing capsule with its solar cell wings out. C.S. Of the apparatus they landed on the moon unmanned but with instruments. CU Of leg of the space model in which men will be landed on the moon. Crowds passing and looking up at it. The lunar earth on which it stands in fg. CU Of the model. CU Of the entrance hatch to model colored parachutes on dome behind it. BCU The frame work of the pavilion from train as we leave. MLS The American pavilion from outside the train curving away across its front. Various shots of the rides at the Expo fairground; a locomotive ride, the log flume. CU A cow-catching locomotive on the children’s fairground train ride coming out of its tunnel and little boy on the footplate. MS Two of these locomotives passing Canadian Pacific style of last century crossing each other. MS The log ride there is a river bridge in b.g. as the carved log goes down its first chute and comes right up to camera. MS Two boys in one of these logs swooshing around corner. C.S. Tracking forward camera in one of the logs swirling water ahead MS One of these logs rounding bend. C.S. Tracking forward down final swoosh from log spray on camera. Two lumberjacks climb rapidly to the top of logs. The Canadian tree-climbers racing up their 150ft. tree trunks. People are seen on a Swiss revolving viewing tower. The tower with round viewing platform that is a lift and revolves. C.S. Inside lift passengers looking out we see bridge in river. Aerial views of the site. LS From the revolving lift panning fairground. C.S. Of the tower with lift at top revolving. LS Planning more of the fairground. MS Amusement park rides. | |
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