| EXPO '67 Amusements and performers at 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 #: | 38171 | |
| Clip Number: | 38171-3 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 658 | |
| Timecode: | 01:38:58 - 01:43:08 | |
| Location: | Montreal, Canada. | |
| Year Shot: | 1967 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | EXHIBITIONS: World's Fairs LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: Canada, Quebec, Montreal | |
| Description: | Aerial view of the Expo. LS The exhibitions site from a helicopter. The only shot that shows it is on two bridge islands. Several views of the monorail and wind socks. Two trains passing at a junction where the lines curve out like a flower. MS A train at a point on the line where it describes a boomeranged curve. C.S. Train curving past funfair sculpture and round lamp stead globes. CU Some kind of decorative sculptured weather vane. CU Another weather vane in striped material like an airport windsock. A man sells bouncing balloons in the fairground. CU A balloon being bounced backwards and forwards at the camera. MS Fairground atmosphere the balloon man with a stick of balloons still bouncing one in front of him. C.S. More fairground crowds a train passing overhead and the roadway bus-train passing through the crowds. C.S. A baby being pushed in a colorful '7-up' pram. MS Fairground crowds. C.S. Another 7-up pram with three toddlers in it. MS John Rammell in the English Gentleman’s pram (rickshaw) John Rammell quite oblivious of the hard work going on behind him. CU The peddlers legs working the rickshaw. MS John and the rickshaw driver. Several shots show an English Whitbread pub called 'The Bulldog' on the site. MLS The English pub people drinking under sunshades. C.S. People with beer at tables. Waitress serving tankards of beer at a table. CU Tankards being served. Hand puts dollar bills onto a tray which is taken away. On the steps of the French pavilion we see buskers performing: The Road Stars do a kind of Egyptian sand dance. MS Buskers 'The Road Stars' doing their Egyptian walk one hand ahead and one hand behind like a ducks tail. CU Pointed boots of the one-man-band Cyril Jackson. C.S. Three ice-skaters on their small stage. C.S. The Road Stars crowds behind them with Union Jacks watching. CU The back of the one-man-band the cymbals on his drum clashing. C.S. The Road Stars doing a silly knees-up Mother Brown waggling their shirt front. C.S. The three ice skaters. MCU The one-man-band playing his saxophone. Now we see he has a puppet monkey sitting on the side of his drum cracking baby cymbals The English pub in b.g. CU Mexican statue of a woman playing some musical instrument. C.S. Mexican band and this statue. MLS The exhibition site seen from behind the band a train passing. MS Mexican band and two Mexican dancers. CU The two dancers legs as they pirouette round each other. C.S. Over the shoulder of one musician as the train passes. A group of men dressed as soldiers (Canadian?) in old fashioned uniform and tricorner hats walk past carrying rifles, flags and drums. C.S. A forest of flags fluttering in the breeze the Maple Leaf and the Union Jack prominent. CU The Expo sign at dusk at the river side. MS Fountains at the magic hour as a late train-bus passes by. LS Fairground at night with lit roundabouts and the Ferris wheel. CU Of Ferris wheel with its lights. CU Another lit swirling Amusement park ride. CU Another Amusement park ride the lights seem dim. MS A Muncher Beer sign it lights up brilliantly. CU Other colored lights. MLS Fireworks. | |
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