Expo '67 Doc: World's Fair in Montreal, Canada (1967)

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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@NormanLor Ай бұрын

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!!

@ginak7092 Жыл бұрын

My family and I attended the 1967 World’s Fair. It was such a fun and interesting experience.

@jamesgutman7271 9 жыл бұрын

Montreal is not the capital Quebec, Quebec City is.

@Mckscooter Жыл бұрын

50 years too late for this comment

@FCSilver 11 ай бұрын

51 years too late for this comment

@tomryan914 10 ай бұрын

"Oui!"

@Zebra_3 4 ай бұрын

and Quebec City is one big village.

@caplanjoel 9 жыл бұрын

Great. I still have my Expo 67 pass

@marcleslac2413 2 жыл бұрын

Nice, my parents both went there.

@touringthecitywalking9209 2 жыл бұрын

I am watching it just now lol! It is still a mind-boggling event! Yes, keep that passport, it's worth every penny.

@kgm4556 Жыл бұрын

I can’t believe we pulled this off in 1967. We couldn’t put this show on today in 2023. What a show.

@ejd7881 8 ай бұрын

you got that right

@Zebra_3 4 ай бұрын

we?

@kgm4556 4 ай бұрын

@@Zebra_3 Canada.

@Zebra_3 4 ай бұрын

@@kgm4556 the naysayers were there in 1967 and still doing their thing in 2024.

@michelfortin7055 9 жыл бұрын

Brings back meomories. I still remember visiting when I was ten years old at the time.

@starterchannel 6 жыл бұрын

Retro futurism at its finest.

@touringthecitywalking9209 2 жыл бұрын

I am watching today of this great event that took place some 55 years ago, and still today it's worth watching!

@lisepoulette6204 9 жыл бұрын

quels beaux souvenirs!!!! j'y ai célébré mes 20 ans... J'ai visité davantage avec KZfaq qu'à l'époque... il y avait foule et on devait attendre des heures pour une visite.

@MrEricdraco 5 жыл бұрын

I wish I could teleport and live in this era

@digitalevidenceexpert7964 Жыл бұрын

Man and his World was open for many years after 1967. We had many fond memories going there every summer.

@trainrover Жыл бұрын

nobody ever called it Expo 67, it was always either Man & His World or La Ronde

@alainmallette2265 2 жыл бұрын

I was born in Montréal,in 1967😊

@marthaperdew 11 ай бұрын

My dad and i went to Expo 67 , it was awesome!

@hoegaarden27 10 жыл бұрын

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.

@Argonaut121 3 ай бұрын

I visited Expo 67 a bunch of times. It was a fabulous experience. Life changing really.

@EasySounds 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this with us all!

@PeacockPovertyDotOrg Ай бұрын

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

@stephaneblais9149 2 жыл бұрын

When i go to the Canadian GP on Ile Notre Dame, Jamaican pavillion is still there!! Incredible!!

@samkohen4589 2 жыл бұрын

But its empty

@WhatTechShow 9 жыл бұрын

This is wonderful, I wasn't alive at the time but I sure wish I was!

@Habsbsbgirl1909 Жыл бұрын

I was 4 so many memories, one of my favourite part was riding the monorail

@laurencedaoust3029 9 жыл бұрын

wow ya pas de trafic dans les rues du centre-ville!

@marcleslac2413 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@michaelbruns449 2 жыл бұрын

When and why did we stop doing these world fairs and expos?

@mayjanen849 2 жыл бұрын

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

@samkohen4589 2 жыл бұрын

They cost a fortune

@A_Canadian_In_Poland Ай бұрын

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.

@mushmorant9253 10 жыл бұрын

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.

@simontemplar5506 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mikeFolco Жыл бұрын

True, it's just its heart and soul.

@pb4595 2 ай бұрын

Montreal was the capital of the United Canadas from 1844 to 1849.

@Starlababy Жыл бұрын

My parents took me there in 1968.I don't remember a thing.

@dougmarshall4010 2 ай бұрын

50 million visitors to Montreal in 1967

@vicp8772 Ай бұрын

Some rides at la Ronde are in the same condition

@hfmcm 9 жыл бұрын

Montreal, capital of the province of Quebec? WTF?

@andrevaillancourt7763 9 жыл бұрын

Faudrait recommencer

@paulbienvenu5494 2 жыл бұрын

7:00 wow thats crazy

@dougmarshall4010 2 ай бұрын

And in 2024, still the best city in Canada.

@professeurtournesol Жыл бұрын

J'y suis né 10 ans avant. C'est vrai que c'était une belle ville en 1967.

@johngore7744 Жыл бұрын

Moi avec j’y suis ne a Montreal le 14 fevrier 1961 Hopital General Montreal. Cheers de L’Ile Perrot😎

@johngore7744 Жыл бұрын

Beaucoup souvenirs de L’Expo a six ans.

@calvinguile1315 10 ай бұрын

Could you imagine dropping acid and going to the Expo?

@naranjojo Жыл бұрын

Rode here on the bus.

@cklove8393 9 жыл бұрын

... yes where the Canadian pavilion wasn't a circus tent and when les anglais felt like they belonged.

@mikeFolco Жыл бұрын

Belonged = Ruled

@pb4595 2 ай бұрын

@@mikeFolco exactly

@PEPlourde Жыл бұрын

"...Montréal, capital of Canadas Québec province." I do not think so.

@victord777 4 ай бұрын

Its sad what this city has turned into. I dont think they have fixed the roads since this period.

@mike62mcmanus Ай бұрын

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...

@monah5532 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@orbyfan Жыл бұрын

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.

@monah5532 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@orbyfan Жыл бұрын

@@monah5532 Fair enough.

@caplanjoel 9 жыл бұрын

I was given & still have the flag from the Israeli pavillion

@andrevaillancourt7763 9 жыл бұрын

Partant du futur hier demain aujourd'hui

@truecrimeboozer Жыл бұрын

Throbbing seems to a favoured adjective with this narrator. Interesting.

@mike62mcmanus Ай бұрын

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..

@1monsieur Жыл бұрын

0:37 nous sommes à l'intérieur d'une MGB.

@trainrover Жыл бұрын

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

@jvictor.correia Жыл бұрын

alvvays

@wigsy99 Жыл бұрын

Montreal is NOT the capital of Quebec. It’s Quebec City. This piece is so poorly done

@stephaneblais9149 2 жыл бұрын

Difficult to believe that it was in Montreal....The city did not evolve well, Too much politics....

@simontemplar5506 2 жыл бұрын

Since Montreal loses its French soul, this city becomes even more insignificant like Louisiana.

@fc-8843 Жыл бұрын

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.

@TheStreetfish Жыл бұрын

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

@bikesarebest Жыл бұрын

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.

@GoWestYoungMan 2 ай бұрын

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.

@billyholiday4947 5 ай бұрын

What a waste of money and time!

@ejd7881 8 ай бұрын

Montreal was very english at that time a lot more than today

@curlyhum1276 4 ай бұрын

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.