''Canada '67'' is a Circle-Vision 360° documentary film by Canadian film director Robert Barclay, which was presented at the Telephone Pavilion (formally named the Telephone Association of Canada Pavilion), part of

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, an International World's Fair held in

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, Canada in 1967 to mark the centenary of the

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Reconstructing Two Immersive Multimedia Pavilions from Expo '67: The Christian Pavilion and the Telephone Pavilion
Concordia University, April 25, 2009. (PDF) The telephone pavilion was created to promote telephone companies and their services, but its main feature was the Canada '67 film produced by

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and presented in a large, completely circular movie theatre.

Description

The official Expo '67 Guide Book described some of the documentary's many scenes: ''"You're on centre stage for the

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Musical Ride... on centre ice for

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... on the track at the

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! CIRCLE-VISION 360° surrounds you with all the fun and excitement of Canada's most thrilling events and its scenic beauty''"."Official Expo 67 Guide Book: Telephone Pavilion", Maclean-Hunter Publishing Co. Ltd., 1967, pg.178.Expo 67 Circle Vision 360
Expo 67 In Montreal website. Retrieved August 12, 2011. Directed by Canadian filmmaker Robert Barclay, the film also presented a

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hurtling down a steep ice track at the Quebec Winter Carnival, along with many other events and scenes iconic to the country. Viewers in the audience occasionally experienced

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after one particularly dramatic sequence filmed over

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Production and exhibition

The film was commissioned by the Telephone Association of Canada and produced by

. A converted B-25

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rebuilt by

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's Tallmantz Aviation film unit was used to capture the aerial shots. The film was one of the rarest Circle-Vision movies ever exhibited; it has not been exhibited since the conclusion of the World's Fair in 1967, except for a brief appearance in January 1974 at Disney's

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during its ''Salute to Canada''. The film also served as the inspiration for the subsequent ''O Canada!'' movie that has played at Disney's Epcot Center since 1982. The film cameras, nine of them arranged in a circle to record a 360° view, were assembled in a uniquely designed frame to allow for precise filming while the multiple

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rig was suspended from a converted B-25 bomber plus various boats and vehicles. A four-person production team shot about of 35 mm colour film over a 10-month period. The finished film showed 80 separate scenes, presented to audiences of about 1,200–1,500 viewers per showing, every 30 minutes.Davies, Helen
The Politics of Participation: Learning from Canada's Centennial Year
MASSLBP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2010, . In typical Disney World

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style, one set of doors permitted the audience to enter the theatre's viewing area which was divided into narrow 'strips' and which had no seating – viewers stood for the entire performance or could lean on the solid guide rails positioned between the strips. When each film showing was complete the audience would keep walking straight forward to exit via a second set of doors on the opposite side of the theatre entrance. The continuous flow-through design allowed for the maximum of viewers with only minimal delays between showings. The 360° wrap-around theatre used nine 35mm Simplex X-L

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, one for each of the film cameras, with each one projecting a 40° wide image onto a completely circular screen in order to produce a 360° view. The screens were in height, with a circumference, positioned above floor level. Twelve powerful stereo speakers were suspended above the top of the screens, and which played the English and French commentary,

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s and a specially composed musical score. The audio tracks were recorded on two separate six-channel 35mm

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media.

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* Runtime & film stock: 18 minutes (22 minutes with credits), 35mm, color * Grand opening: April 28, 1967 * Closed: October 29, 1967 * Designer:

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* Location: Telephone Pavilion,

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* Formal Name of Attraction: "Canada '67" * Film negative format (mm/video inches): 9 x 35 mm * Cinematographic process: Circle-Vision 360° * Printed film format: 9 x 35 mm * Aspect ratio: 12.00 : 1 (sic) Retrieved 12 August 2011.

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* {{IMDb title, 0061442 Expo 67 1967 films Circle-Vision 360° films Canadian short documentary films Films shot in Canada Documentary films about Canada Disney short films 1967 short documentary films Disney documentary films 1960s American films 1960s Canadian films World's fair films

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