Canada '67

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Canada '67
Directed byRobert Barclay
Production
company
Walt Disney Productions
Release date
  • 1967 (1967)
Running time
22 minutes
CountryCanada

Canada '67 is a

Confederation of Canada.[1]

The telephone pavilion was created to promote

Walt Disney Productions and presented in a large, completely circular movie theatre.[2][3]

Description

The official Expo '67 Guide Book described some of the documentary's many scenes: "You're on centre stage for the RCMP Musical Ride... on centre ice for hockey... on the track at the Stampede! CIRCLE-VISION 360° surrounds you with all the fun and excitement of Canada's most thrilling events and its scenic beauty".[2][3]

Directed by Canadian filmmaker Robert Barclay, the film also presented a bobsled hurtling down a steep ice track at the Quebec Winter Carnival, along with many other events and scenes iconic to the country.[1] Viewers in the audience occasionally experienced vertigo after one particularly dramatic sequence filmed over Niagara Falls.[4]

Production and exhibition

The film was commissioned by the Telephone Association of Canada and produced by

Epcot Center
since 1982.

The film cameras, nine of them arranged in a circle to record a 360° view, were assembled in a uniquely designed 400 pounds (180 kg) frame to allow for precise filming while the multiple

35 mm colour film over a 10-month period.[1]

The finished film showed 80 separate scenes, presented to audiences of about 1,200–1,500 viewers per showing, every 30 minutes.

theme park
style, one set of doors permitted the audience to enter the theatre's viewing area which was divided into narrow 'strips' and which had no seating – viewers stood for the entire performance or could lean on the solid guide rails positioned between the strips. When each film showing was complete the audience would keep walking straight forward to exit via a second set of doors on the opposite side of the theatre entrance. The continuous flow-through design allowed for the maximum of viewers with only minimal delays between showings.

The 360° wrap-around theatre used nine

35mm Simplex X-L projectors, one for each of the film cameras, with each one projecting a 40° wide image onto a completely circular screen in order to produce a 360° view. The screens were 23 feet (7.0 m) in height, with a 273 feet (83 m) circumference, positioned 7 feet (2.1 m) above floor level.[1]

Twelve powerful stereo speakers were suspended above the top of the screens, and which played the English and French commentary, sound effects and an especially composed musical score. The audio tracks were recorded on two separate six-channel 35mm magnetic tape media.[1]

Data

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Gagnon, Monika Kin. Reconstructing Two Immersive Multimedia Pavilions from Expo '67: The Christian Pavilion and the Telephone Pavilion, Concordia University, April 25, 2009. (PDF)
  2. ^ a b c "Official Expo 67 Guide Book: Telephone Pavilion", Maclean-Hunter Publishing Co. Ltd., 1967, pg.178.
  3. ^ a b c Expo 67 Circle Vision 360, Expo 67 In Montreal website. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
  4. ^ Anderson, David & Gosselin, Viviane. Private and Public Memories of Expo 67: A Case Study of Recollections of Montreal's World's Fair, 40 Years After the Event, University of British Columbia, 2008, pg.8. (PDF)
  5. ISBN 978-0-9811005-0-2
    .
  6. ^
    IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
    Retrieved 12 August 2011.

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