A Place to Stand (1967)
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2024
- This video, produced by Christopher Chapman for the Ontario Department of Economics and Development, premiered at the Ontario Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal.
Featuring the iconic soundtrack composed by Dolores Claman, the film’s innovative editing technique earned it the 1968 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Subject.
It includes shots of natural resource development, manufacturing, landscapes, and recreation activities in various locations across Ontario.
Cette vidéo, produite par Christopher Chapman pour le ministère de l’Économie et du Développement de l’Ontario, a été présentée pour la première fois au pavillon de l’Ontario dans le cadre de l’Expo 67 de Montréal.
Le film, qui comprend la musique devenue emblématique et composée par Dolores Claman, a remporté l’Oscar du meilleur court métrage de fiction en 1968 grâce aux techniques novatrices utilisées pour le montage.
Il présente des prises de vue montrant le développement de ressources naturelles, les industries, les paysages et les activités récréatives de divers endroits en Ontario.
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This archival video does not necessarily reflect the views of the Government of Ontario today.
Cette vidéo d'archives ne représente pas nécessairement l'opinion du gouvernement de l'Ontario d'aujourd'hui.
does anyone remember that this movie won an Oscar as best live action short subject but was also nominated for Documentary short the same year. quite an achievement.
My Dad was involved!! Bill Foster, Sound Credits! xoxo - rip Daddy...I miss you and love you...we remember this "work of Art". Ontario does! Love Victoria [daughter]
I am so curious: do you know who has the actual Oscar statue? Your father helped produce one of the most important legacies of this province! Congrats to him, and to you! A work of art, indeed!!
Of note: The ground-breaking split-screen imagery was immediately embraced by Hollywood. Canadian director Norman Jewison employed the same technique with great style and panache in his production of "The Thomas Crown Affair" (released in 1968) with Steve McQueen & Faye Dunaway.
This film was the lifetime lasting impression left on me of Expo 67!!! The film, its song lyrics, and tune have been stuck in my head since!! Watching it in the Ontario Pavilion in September 1967 was an overwhelming experience. This video brings back that day!!! Thank-you!!!!
My DAD [rip] was the additional Sound Director; William G., Bill Foster! WOW! I remember the song and seeing the film at Ontario Place. 'Thank you Daddy, for the memories!'. Missing you xoxo. Victoria Foster Bueler
IMAX used to mix the early films @ Ontario Place.
This had to be one of the greatest attractions of Expo '67. People surely waited for hours on busier days to experience this in its full, large screen, surround sound glory.
My father worked on this film at Film Effects of Hollywood
Such a beautiful, creative film about Ontario, Canada. Thoroughly enjoyed it. It's the Canada that I was lucky enough to grow up in.
7:30 The rail car depicted is for the "Expo Express" rapid transit system inside Expo 67. Similar to Toronto subway cars (shown behind) but automated, air conditioned and larger windows. After expo, used only for a few summers afterwards. After lots of false starts and failed re-use plans, the abandoned trains were finally scrapped in 1996.
A similar fate to the Deux Montages commuter rail line cars under Mount Royal. Built by Bombardier in 1995, the electric powered cars ended service in 2020 so the line could be converted to part of "REM" , a regional rapid transit service. After attempts to sell the cars generated no interest, they were scrapped in 2023. This was the only "mainline rail" electrification, started in 1921, in all of Canada.
I've been waiting to see this again. This is the Ontario , Canada I grew up with. Great memories. Heritage film. Golden! Thanks
THIS IS A FUCKING MASTERPIECE.
The frame at @12:04 is just incredible, it say so much with so little in such visually elegant style.
I love the quality of this! I don't know why but this film and jingle makes me emotional and I'm not even originally from Ontario and was born 10 years after this.
Christopher Chapman won an Oscar for "A Place To Stand."
I’m from B.C. but I remember 1967!
RIP Dolores Claman, composer of this soundtrack and the Hockey Night in Canada theme.
What? A Canadian Icon!
This was fun. I sang at Expo 67 with the Montreal Girls choir and did visit the Ontario pavillion to see this film. Some of the photography is pretty relateable...line ups on the 401, parliament buildings in winter.
So happy that a good quality copy of the film has finally been put online! This film and its rousing music are as fascinating today as ever. The multi-dynamic image technique premiered here (as concieved by Christopher Chappman) had a great influence on so many productions in the following years, yet this groundbreaking work has remained obscure. Thank you for makng this available!
The birth place of IMAX at Expo 67. Far out!
What a wonderful thing that, in an era where government documents make it into the shredder, this film didn't disappear into the ether. Not as dated as it seems at first ... it's a reminder how great Ontario is to live in, faults and all.
Yes, beautifully said!!
I just found a 70mm print of this film. It is missing the opening title. Glad I found this.
The split-screenwork in this film was done by Linwood G. Dunn who was also one of the four optical-efx artist who worked on the original Star Trek series. Dunn filmed the 12-foot Starship Enterprise model that is now in the Smithsonian Institute. (All the original ST models were built Dick Datin and his small crew of three more people.) Photos of Datin & his crew with the models and of Dunn photographing the models can all be found on the net via Google. He also worked on the original King Kong and Citizen Kane among many other films for RKO, Howard Hughes, and Desi-Lou before forming his own independent company as credited in this film, which win the short film Oscar in 1968.
Thank you very much for sharing this! I ended up here because I was googling about the so-called "multi-dynamic image technique" which was invented by Christopher Chapman and first used in this film of his.
Saw this in elementary school shortly after it was made....Still makes me proud to be an Ontarian born and bred....When I grew older I had the privilege of a 30 year career with Ontario Hydro /Ontario Power Generation....At the time this film was made and for a couple decades after, Ontario Hydro was among the top energy company on the planet and I was very proud of that!...We have lost that cutting edge and optimism now....What a shame!
I remember being transfixed by this film. It was breathtaking. I'm trying to remember if the theatre was a surround concept... ?
Looking back through time, from 2024 ? I want THAT Ontario back again !!
I'll be 15 in two weeks so may I still say that *IM 14 AND THIS IS DEEP*
this is one of the greatest moments in canadian history
beautiful Ontario, epic-ally captured
I look forward to more videos.Keep it up!
Back when Ontario was the most prosperous place on earth.....the envy of the world.
Hard to believe it could fall so far within my own short life. 😢
Agreed.
It’s become unliveable…
Yes! 😢😢
This film was considered to be a ground-breaking way to make a documentary and inspired the movie of the "Woodstock" concert!
Director Norman Jewison immediately employed this technique in "The Thomas Crown Affair" released in 1968. It was the first major Hollywood film to take advantage of the novel split-screen motion styling, and remains the signature aspect of the movie.
6:51 -7:00 - I STILL have my glass sculpture exactly like that, and it's even the same amber/yellow colour. My little bit of Canadiana ! :)
It's a bit disappointing that people would use this marvellous piece of kitsch to air predictable grievances about the state of Ontario in the 21st century. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE this film and Chapman's overall structural conceit (multi-image impressionism) was revelatory (Yes, there had been split screen and multi image films before, but none of this complexity, none with the sheer number of images on screen at once), but it IS kitsch - a delightful fantasia on what Ontario (or any place) claims to be, dreams to be, but can't necessarily be in its entirety for very long. Nostalgia is a beautiful, delicate dessert, a palate cleanser for one's present lived reality, and it should be seen as such. I am hopelessly nostalgic and have devoted the better part of the last 30 years becoming an armchair cultural historian of Canada circa 1959-1980, but I would be a fool to believe that my interest in those times is anything but an escape, a way of seeing life through a kind of well-art directed scenography. There's nothing wrong with this: we need diversion, but to imagine 'Ontario '67' was somehow better run than 'Ontario 2019' would be to demonstrate a rather naive (and certainly reactionary) understanding of social, political, and especially economic processes. If there's one thing that one CAN take from this film - as a metaphor, at least - it is this: Ontario now is multi-image, best represented from several perspectives at once, no matter how fleeting.
I recall viewing this in awe in the Ontario pavilion at Expo 67. At the end I went out and got in line again. My first takeaway in 2021 is that this is a 54-year-old film that has weathered well. And while I, of course, did feel nostalgia while viewing it, what leaped out was Christopher Chapman's all-encompassing view: culture / geography / climate / recreation AND, most importantly, the comprehensive overview of the inter-connectivity that is found in our province's farming and natural resources > products > productivity > jobs > prosperity > stability > good order. I think he struck all the right chords and captured the essence of the province. God bless him!
Anyone who thinks Ontario is better run now than back then under Robarts & Davis is the one living in a delusional world.
I disagree. Just look at the Toronto Police website "Most Wanted For Homicide" page. None of the people in this film (nor their children or grandchildren) appear on that disgusting list.
Ontario was once great - a true trust based society. But that's all long gone. Our Ontario is long, long gone.
@@donnaprocher6776Well-stated.
Memories!
Seriously, why does this short film from 1967 receive so much credit and attention for supposedly innovating these split screen multi imaging effects?
When the awesome racing movie Grand Prix - 1966 had already devised and displayed it at least a year earler and is actually way more visually stunning!
The prototype IMAX projection was developed at Expo 67
9:51 nice apron
RIP doloros
Ontari-ari-ari-Oh!
What an uplifting theme song for a once great Province. So what's Ontario's theme now? "Highway to Hell?" "Pigs (three different ones)?" Or "Welcome To The Jungle?"
The last time the Leafs won the Cup...
We will never feel this sense of optimism again
What's the guy drinking at 1:40
What movies were shown with this short
The film premiered at the Ontario Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal in April 1967. It then enjoyed a cinema release.
It was also shown as a stand-alone attraction at Ontario Place in one of the small theatre/exhibition areas called "pods" over the water. I don't know the year, perhaps in the 70's.
Lots of things not allowed to be praised now...strip mining, deforestation, smoking, shooting at ducks, etc
10:37 Depicting the manufacturing of cigarettes is not something would "celebrate on film" today.
This is the opposite of Koyaaniqatsi.
WTH happened in 50 years... in debt/ corruptions/ crowdedness/ welfare/ 3 rd world status
Corruption existed 50 years ago big time. It was covered up much better and the media didn't challenge the politicians as much.
People voted for it.
The first thing you see is the environment being carved into in a day when they had little regard for such things as environmental standards.
Let’s talk about the film, not politics. Kay?
Why?
The tree-hugging Liberal Party of Ontario today would definitely not approve of this.
@Jane Cartwright Then why did the DeBeers Victor Diamond mine near Attawapiskat open under the Liberal government?!? BURN!
@Max Webster It hasn't closed yet. It has a lifespan like any mine and will wind down soon. I agree with your comment about Ford being unable to do anything.
I am a Liberal and I think we should exploit every part of our environment to it’s fullest extent as soon as possible.