''Transitions'' is the first full-colour 3D IMAX film, created for the Canada Pavilion at

Expo 86 The 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, or simply Expo 86, was a World's Fair held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from May 2 until October 13, 1986. The fair, the theme of which was "Transportation and Communicatio ...

, co-directed by Colin Low and

Tony Ianzelo Tony Ianzelo (born June 13, 1935) is a Canadian documentary director and cinematographer. Career Ianzelo was born in Toronto, Ontario, and attended Toronto's Ryerson Institute of Technology. His career at the National Film Board of Canada wa ...

and produced by the

National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary f ...

. It built upon ''We Are Born of Stars'' created for

Expo '85 Expo '85, officially called the , was a world's fair held in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan (Tsukuba Science City, a planned city focused on technology north of Tokyo) between Sunday, March 17 and Monday, September 16, 1985. The theme of the fair was " ...

in Tskuba, Japan, which used

anaglyph 3D Anaglyph 3D is the stereoscopic 3D effect achieved by means of encoding each eye's image using filters of different (usually chromatically opposite) colors, typically red and cyan. Anaglyph 3D images contain two differently filtered colored ...

. The film is also notable for the first use of stereoscopic computer animation.

Production

Canadian National The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN ...

, the main sponsor of the Canada Pavilion, asked the NFB to produce a film about

transportation in Canada Canada, the world's second-largest country in total area, is dedicated to having an efficient, high-capacity multimodal transport spanning often vast distances between natural resource extraction sites, agricultural and urban areas. Canada's tr ...

, in keeping with the fair's theme “Transportation and Communications”. The film's computer animation sequence was produced by the Centre d'animatique unit of the NFB's French animation studio, credited to

Daniel Langlois Daniel Langlois (born 1957 in Jonquière) is the president and founder of the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Ex-Centris, and Media Principia Inc. Daniel Langlois also founded Softimage Inc., serving as its president and chief technology officer fr ...

, shortly before he left the NFB to found Softimage.

Projection

''Transitions'' was projected on a screen at the pavilion's CN IMAX Theatre, to over 1.75 million people, during a six-month run.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Transitions (Film) 1986 3D films 1986 documentary films 1986 films 1986 in Canada 3D short films Canadian 3D films Canadian National Railway Documentary films about transport Expo 86 Films directed by Colin Low (filmmaker) Films directed by Tony Ianzelo IMAX short films National Film Board of Canada documentaries Canadian short documentary films Transport in Canada World's fair films Films scored by Eldon Rathburn IMAX documentary films National Film Board of Canada short films 3D documentary films 1980s English-language films 1980s Canadian films 1980s short documentary films

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