| INDOOR CITY Underground City in Montreal | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5036 |
| Catalog #: | 365052 | |
| Clip Number: | 365052-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 69/14 | |
| Timecode: | 01:48:24 - 01:49:52 | |
| Location: | Montreal, Canada | |
| Year Shot: | 1969 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BUILDINGS: Urban CITY PLANNING: Misc. LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: Canada, Quebec, Montreal | |
| Description: | INDOOR CITY (aka UNDERGROUND CITY) Montreal's Underground City, Reso. Montreal, Canada Traveling shot as we drive along highway towards downtown Montreal. Tracking shot looking forward driving on expressway in Montreal; rainy and foggy. Exterior shot of Ville Marie garage entrance with car going into hotel garage. Car (covered with snow) driving into hotel garage. C/U of car wheels driving through slush. General view of commuters coming up stairs into Canadian National Station. Several shots of the 'underground city' above or below the station - a shopping mall. GV Information desk interior Place Ville Marie. People walk around. Crowds of people walking through underground passageways. Signs overhead point to various locations. AS Direction signs. A man cleans the floor with a sweeping machine. Tracking shot past restaurant/coffee shop; full of people. People sit in a cafe. Soda fountain. People having morning coffee. Pan past windows of bakery, sweets on display, people at counter. Girl buying cakes at pastry shop. Barber shop. Men have their haircut at a barber's and their shoes shined at another store. CU Man brushing shoes. GV Shoe-shine shop. CU shoe getting shined. View of shop with man in shoeshine chair. People queue at a bank. Bank: 2 men talk to woman at desk. GV bank; with several desks. GV Customers in bank. Banking hours 8.00 til 6.00. Shots of people wandering about the mall. Shot of people's legs walking on wooden floor. People walking through bank along walled corridors. More of people walking with modern looking design. A metro train is seen arriving on a lower level of the mall. LV People walking above Metro train which has just arrived. People come up an escalator into the Place Bonaventure. People at top of escalator in mall. C/U of sign reading 'Zum Zum' outside a sausage cafe. Pan to cafeteria. GV Cafeteria. Pan Concordia Hall (great exhibition hall). Place Bonaventure Boat Show. In the exhibition hall people look at yachts in some kind of boat show. LV Boat show with a flashing light in foreground on top on one of the boats. Two girls swim in an outdoor heated pool on top of the Hotel Bonaventure. Pool: girls in swimsuits climb down ladder into water; go through opening. CU Two girls in pool. Zoom back to show steaming hot water. Shot of girls emerging in pool outside building. Girls in water up to necks. CU The two girls in water. A man comes out of a shop with a sign in the window reading 'Turkish Bath' and does up his coat. Shot of a window in a skyscraper then zoom out to show the high tower in the city surroundings of Montreal. Shot of arched windows in modern building; zoom out to aerial shot of high-rise building; city below. High AS Zoom out from Place Du Canada Building. Modern urban convenience. | |
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