Expo '67 Doc: World's Fair in Montreal, Canada (1967) | British Pathé
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- Considered widely to be the most successful World's Fair of the 20th century, 62 nations gathered to showcase their cultures, art, and scientific innovation during Canada's Centennial year.
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Documentary about the Expo 1967 in Montreal, Canada.
(FILM ID: 417.03)
Several shots show the city of Montreal; girls sit at a French cafe, a man buys a French newspaper; several shots of modern skyscrapers; a couple in a red sports car drive along the highway towards the Expo '67.
At Expo '67 we see numerous shots of the world fair, mostly from the monorail. Inside the British pavilion we see towering human figures, sculptures by Mario Armengol; visitors listen to a commentary on 'Britain's role in the modern world'. Another section shows a display depicting Carnaby Street. The Olympus jet engine, designed for Concord, is displayed. Huge books sit on a shelf; titles include 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold', 'Goldfinger' and 'Love on the Dole'. Papier mache figures show the way of British life in 1967 (see CP 645 - PAPIER MACHE SCULPTURE for the making of these figures).
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. Pavilions for Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Ceylon, Burma and Thailand. Two Thai girls walk beside an ornamental lake where a gondola boat sits. Several shots of a display/building called Habitat; it looks like futuristic a block of flats arranged higgledy-piggledy. 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.
Various shots of the rides at the Expo fairground; a locomotive ride, the log flume. Two lumberjacks climb rapidly to the top of logs. People are seen on a Swiss revolving viewing tower; aerial views of the site; several shots of a fairground ride (an 'umbrella-seat' roundabout).
See also CP 658 - EXPO '67.
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Great. I still have my Expo 67 pass
Nice, my parents both went there.
I am watching it just now lol! It is still a mind-boggling event! Yes, keep that passport, it's worth every penny.
My family and I attended the 1967 World’s Fair. It was such a fun and interesting experience.
I can’t believe we pulled this off in 1967. We couldn’t put this show on today in 2023.
What a show.
you got that right
we?
@@Zebra_3 Canada.
@@kgm4556 the naysayers were there in 1967 and still doing their thing in 2024.
Montreal is not the capital Quebec, Quebec City is.
50 years too late for this comment
51 years too late for this comment
"Oui!"
and Quebec City is one big village.
Brings back meomories. I still remember visiting when I was ten years old at the time.
I am watching today of this great event that took place some 55 years ago, and still today it's worth watching!
I wish I could teleport and live in this era
I WAS 17 WHEN WE VISITED THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME. IT WAS LIKE A MAGICAL DREAM. WE HAD NEVER IMAGINED ANYTHING LIKE IT BEFORE. OUR PARENTS BOUGHT US ALL PASSPORTS AND WE WENT THERE ALMOST DAILY FOR THE WHOLE SUMMER. IF ANYTHING PUT CANADA ON THE WORLD STAGE, IT WAS THIS!!
Retro futurism at its finest.
quels beaux souvenirs!!!! j'y ai célébré mes 20 ans... J'ai visité davantage avec CZcams qu'à l'époque... il y avait foule et on devait attendre des heures pour une visite.
Man and his World was open for many years after 1967. We had many fond memories going there every summer.
nobody ever called it Expo 67, it was always either Man & His World or La Ronde
My dad and i went to Expo 67 , it was awesome!
I'm very grateful for this posting. You made my day! The Mario Armengol statues are now located outside the Education Centre of the city of Calgary, Alberta.
I was born in Montréal,in 1967😊
I visited Expo 67 a bunch of times. It was a fabulous experience. Life changing really.
Thank you for sharing this with us all!
This is wonderful, I wasn't alive at the time but I sure wish I was!
When i go to the Canadian GP on Ile Notre Dame, Jamaican pavillion is still there!! Incredible!!
But its empty
wow ya pas de trafic dans les rues du centre-ville!
I was 4 so many memories, one of my favourite part was riding the monorail
It's crazy that we do the Olympics but not world expo anymore. I think it was a much better use of money and did way more to build consensus between nations
When and why did we stop doing these world fairs and expos?
There is an worldwide expo in dubai ending this march! They do them every 4 or 7 years in a new country, a bit like the olympics
They cost a fortune
The Government of Canada officially withdrew from the International Bureau of Expositions in 2012. The World Expo still lives on (with no Canadian participation): the last one was in Dubai, UAE, and the next one is in Osaka, Japan, followed by Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
50 million visitors to Montreal in 1967
A good news reel in the British Pathe tradition about the crowning event of Pierre Berton's "Last Good Year".
One significant mistake, Montreal was never the capital of Quebec.
Yep! still don't know why? Quebec city never find is own way! no metro,too much government worker,not great festival, dull city. Toronto not really better without soul like Montreal,only money talk.Montreal decline since 80's but still better social life with french soul.
True, it's just its heart and soul.
Montreal was the capital of the United Canadas from 1844 to 1849.
My parents took me there in 1968.I don't remember a thing.
Some rides at la Ronde are in the same condition
Can we get a F in the chat to pay respect to the deerly missed pitoune. 2023 edit. Rip the last monorail line at la ronde.
Montreal, capital of the province of Quebec? WTF?
Faudrait recommencer
7:00 wow thats crazy
Rode here on the bus.
... yes where the Canadian pavilion wasn't a circus tent and when les anglais felt like they belonged.
Belonged = Ruled
@@mikeFolco exactly
I was only a toddler when the world came to us here in Montreal, but the memories are still magical. I think it set the foundation of seeing the world as an inherently friendly place with everyone have fascinating cultures and making wonderful contributions. I once read that the primary difference between a conservation and liberal mindset is the first sees danger in everything that is not "us" and the second seeks to perhaps naively to connect and understand. We went to Expo many times, and even as a small child had a sense of Utopia. Maybe one day we can put aside all our fears and stop putting insecure, malicious blowhards into power and finally step in ourselves to build bridges. Thank you to the person who put this up. I have travelled the world many times, but am always delighted to come to my beloved city.
That mentality is fine for the temporary situation of a world's fair, but not as a permanent condition in a country. Montreal is the city that gave us the insecure, malicious blowhard known as Justin Trudeau; thank you so very much.
@@orbyfan Ok, bit odd to judge a city based on your opinion of one person, but I'll play along. We also contributed Jack Layton, Leonard Cohen, Oscar Peterson, Julie Payette and four Nobel laureates. People who became Montrealers later in life include Roméo Dallaire, Marie-Victorin Kirouac and Hugh MacLennan. Collectively, these are people who had dreams of making the world better place through music, art, science and literature and political life. I will also fully concede that unfortunately Justin Trudeau does not have the moral integrity, intellect and backbone of his father.
@@monah5532 Fair enough.
J'y suis né 10 ans avant. C'est vrai que c'était une belle ville en 1967.
Moi avec j’y suis ne a Montreal le 14 fevrier 1961 Hopital General Montreal. Cheers de L’Ile Perrot😎
Beaucoup souvenirs de L’Expo a six ans.
I was given & still have the flag from the Israeli pavillion
"...Montréal, capital of Canadas Québec province." I do not think so.
Could you imagine dropping acid and going to the Expo?
And in 2024, still the best city in Canada.
Throbbing seems to a favoured adjective with this narrator.
Interesting.
fun facts, Montreal was the most Catholic place in the world next to Rome, the French were discouraged from participating in the English economy as many were protestant and were allowed to read bibles. Today Montreal is the place with more gay bath houses than San Francisco, they even hosted the gay games...
Its sad what this city has turned into. I dont think they have fixed the roads since this period.
Partant du futur hier demain aujourd'hui
0:37 nous sommes à l'intérieur d'une MGB.
oo la; poor English there: narrator ought to have mentioned the 'river channel' as being what separated the pair of opposing, bigwig pavillions; not the (whole) "river" itself
That was the year Charles DE Gaulle came and drunkenly uttered Vive le Quèbec Libre and now long after English institutions were bombed, culminating in the kidnapping of the provincial Labour Minister Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross from his Montreal residence. Laporte was murdered..
alvvays
Montreal is NOT the capital of Quebec. It’s Quebec City. This piece is so poorly done
how mutch money lost build all of that only 2 remind Americain Sphere and france pavillion now csino ! i wish to have saw that ! so mutch money lost
A lot of the structures weren't designed to last for decades. Also, the Korean, Jamaican, and Tunisian exhibits are still being used and you can go see them.
Difficult to believe that it was in Montreal....The city did not evolve well, Too much politics....
Since Montreal loses its French soul, this city becomes even more insignificant like Louisiana.
No, the language laws are what drove businesses away and new businesses from making Montreal their home. The Province of Quebec has always been stuck in the past and they decided to take Montreal down with it.
The commentary is very cringey and condescending. Coffee and a croissant are ubiquitous cafe items but he thinks that's true Parisienne flavour? That certainly didn't age well. He sounds like a country bumpkin who's never been outside UK/France. What's next, confusing New York with London because New Yorkers speak English and one can find sandwiches there? And summing up Montreal as a creation of the French, British, and US? So Canadians had no hand in shaping their largest city? How dismissive and insulting.
What a waste of money and time!
Montreal was very english at that time
a lot more than today
i remember 3 points in order of importance. no one spoke english that i interfaced with, second i remember some big carp like fish in the water riding the sky trams? and lastly: i had made no connections with anything at age 5! 100% observer of that event.
alvvays