" THIS WAS EXPO '67 " 1967 INTERNATIONAL AND UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA 79664

This color educational film is about the 1967 International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67, which was a general exhibition, Category One World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This was made in 1967 and is told in stills pictures.
Opening: Flowers, lights, colors, Montreal skyline. Credits: This was Expo 67 (:06-:44). For the Expo 67, islands were constructed in the middle of the St. Lawrence River. Harbors were built. Giant Expo sign with a woman in it. An oceanliner. A train near snow capped mountains. A Canadian Pacific jumbo jet. Cars. Groups of people. Montreal's luxury hotel, the new Chateau Champlain. Opening ceremony April 27, 1967, stills of people, fountains, mini rail, monorail, expo express, cable car, gondolas, hover craft, large crowd, urban housing. Inside of a new habitat of urban housing apartments (:45-3:11). A photographic exhibit, photos on a wall as people look at them. Man and sports, man and music. Pavilions lit up at night. A long line waiting to get into a Pavilion during the day. Human organ exhibit. Teeth. Psychological instincts. Medical services. A fountain. Man as a producer, the provider, the problems of man. A sign with a population count. Winter jacket. Space exploration exhibit (3:12-5:07). United Nations Pavilion: Canada exhibit, sites of Canada. Great Britain exhibit. Winston Churchill's face. France exhibit. Futuristic structure. People walk around inside. A woman smokes. The United States exhibit. Rail cars, U.S. Military man, designs. A crowd. Soviet Union exhibit. Poeple look at space designs. A park. Australia exhibit. Women and shoes. Netherlands exhibit. Little houses. Switzerland. Fountains. Swiss outfit. Belgium exhibit. Paintings, people look at them (5:08-9:22). Germany exhibit. Glassware. Austria exhibit. Italy exhibit. Italian military. An Italian woman. Yugoslavia exhibit. Czechoslovakia exhibit. Silver and glass. People look. Greece exhibit. Nude statues. Monaco, Egypt, Israel exhibits. Menorah as people sit (9:23-11:49). Uganda exhibit. Ghana, Tunisia, Morocco, Ethiopia, Jamaica, Japan exhibits. Korea exhibit. China exhibit. Chinese dolls. Burma exhibit. Jewels and statues (11:50-13:11). Thailand exhibit. India exhibit. Indian decor. Iran exhibit. Iranian flag. People walk. Mexico exhibit. Nuns and Mariachis. Caribbean countries exhibit. Cuba and Venezuela exhibits. Boys sit on a wall. Pavilion. New York exhibit. Maine, Vermont, and the provinces of Quebec exhibits. Ontario exhibit. Futuristic architecture (13:12-15:38). Western and Atlantic Provinces, Indian Pavilion. A man holds a hammer. Boy scout exhibits. Canadian pavilion. A woman smiles. Youth of Canada film shown in a packed theatre on a giant screen. Five senses of man exhibit. Telecommunications exhibit. test tubes (15:39-17:26). Steel, telephone, and polymer pavilion. A man and his home exhibit. Forest products. A long line. Women stand near a kaleidoscope sign. Intricate patterns and colors. Labyrinthe screens. Two on a motorcycle. Military show. Men march, British cannons. Ducks. Boats in the harbor. A smiling woman. Amusement rides. Carnival type rides. Ferris wheel, fireworks. Bumper cars. October 27, 1967 was the closing of the expo. Fountains at night (17:27-20:21). End credits (20:22-20:29).
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[@steadyc9277]

NEAT! My father attended McGill right around this time. Thank you for sharing with us!

[@satanofficial3902]

Excitement is exciting!

[@Thx1138sober]

We spend a week there in July 67 when I was aGE 9, my folks rented someone's apartment for a week.

[@Nudnik1]

Was at 64 Worlds fair NYC as a baby.. We need another worlds fair.

[@Richard_K1630]

Nobody would come now.

[@conveyor2]

World's Covid Fair! Would be entirely online and virtual!

[@Nudnik1]

@@conveyor2 lol

[@satanofficial3902]

No exhibition from the Duchy of Grand Fenwick?

[@jppitman1]

LOL...the Canadian government nixed the idea of a Q-Bomb display and it was all the Duchy had to offer. Its "pavilion" would just have been a small pup tent anyway. You`d have to crawl in to enter it.

[@Autostade67]

Ignore the comment below - the system won't repost it properly.

[@jaminova_1969]

I simply cannot ignore the other comment.

[@Autostade67]

This film is indeed an anomaly as there are several period made films of the fair - some in absolutely pristine condition - which feature its many aspects far more dynamically. As for those who criticisms of the fair are posted below, it might be helpful if you explained your disagreements more eloquently: the fair was in the style of its time, as committed to a postwar high Modernity as was the Chicago Fair of 1893 to the belle époque aesthetic of 'The City Beautiful', the '39 Fair to streamline Deco-Moderneprecursor - not sure why it was 'WRONG' - perhaps the commentator prefers perennial Georgian 'Federalism' or the pastel post-Modernism of 'Celebration').

[@lonniebishop1750]

Canada knew how to throw a party when it came its 100th birthday, and this documentary proves it

[@trainrover]

Do you _really_ suppose the ginormously silly jurisdiction ever capable of pulling it off without crookedly meddlesome big business..you know the sort, the strain that strips humanity of its..well..humanity :::pfft::: -Man & His World- Cleptoparasites (a.k.a. Cukoos, right....) O'er Terra 👎

[@trainrover]

Well, at least Can o' duhhh appeared to have excelled with its presentation abilitY, gloriously graced with 1940s flair, what! what!.. .. . .

[@conveyor2]

@@trainrover

[@trainrover]

baby needs its wIpErs; still ain't ready for coloring either . . . . .

[@naturalobserver6130]

So are all these buildings still there?

[@Edgehead_78]

Some but most of them have been demolished. Canada, USA, France pavilions and La Ronde amusement park are among the ones left. Site has been modified for the 1976 summer olympics, flower exposition (Les Floralies) and the Formula 1 racetrack. It is now a park for most of it.

[@andrewjiaxinchen4925]

Most of them are gone, but some like the US pavilion or the Jamaican pavilion (@12:36) are still there, empty. A lot of the lakes have been filled up, so Notre-Dame island (the bottom right island) is basically a large swamp with the F1 racetrack circling it. The F1 track is also a biking/rollerskate/running track when the race isnt held

[@jppitman1]

They were there long enough to act as backdrop for some Battlestar Galactica scenes a decade later. When I was watching the Greetings From Earth episode the other night, it was like, "Wait a minute.....those places look familiar....I`ve been there....OH YEAH!!"

[@conveyor2]

They were meant to stand only for one year. Habitat, the US geodesic dome, Jamaica and a few others are still there.

[@thegreatnessoftheraiders4948]

Where’s the North Vietnamese exhibit...

[@conveyor2]

...in the Cuban pavilion?

[@Autostade67]

CORRECTED COMMENT:

[@Richard_K1630]

Bummer, no chicks in mini-skirts.

[@OctavioJackson]

Meh. Surely there are better Expo videos out there.

[@mallon04008]

Holy smokes how low was the budget for this thing! Interesting to watch but a glorified slideshow

[@R_R_R_R_R_]

This is a slide show, not a film. Way to under produce such an event.

[@dezzegn]

مممتتتتتتاز 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦

[@marstondavis]

Our family drove from California to see Expo '67 and we thought it was a bust. It wasn't horrible but it just looked cheap. We knew it wasn't a permanent exposition but still was pretty hokey. One highlight was we got to see Emmitt Kelley, the great clown. He never said a word. He just swept up a small area. Everyone that saw him do it was just mesmerized. I remember 'Habitat' and it looked like some little kid put blocks together and called it good. WRONG!

[@Jay-vr9ir]

Hah! It was the most successful fair in the world ever . It was so much better than , the so called World's Fair in New York , that many nations did not attend , New York's was laughed at as the world of already here . The one in New York was a Robert Moses failure .

[@damxgopak457]

Cool but didn't look as good as other expos.

[@Jay-vr9ir]

Hah ! It was the most successful fair in the world ever .

[@trainrover]

Can o' duhhh must signify one o' dem temporary jurisdictions, judging by its dearth of archived artefacts..oh well 🍸