Expo 67 - Found film - roll 1

<p>Found, lost, found, lost, found.</p>

<p><a href="http://westfordcomp.com/foundfilm/3fromcanada/roll1.html">Oh ! Canada !</a></p>

<p>I was born/raised in Montreal and spent half the summer at Expo 67; a truly great experience (and I used to get my 126 film processed at Direct Film-they gave you a brand new free roll of film back with your prints). cb :-)</p>

<p>Nice find. Thanks for sharing.</p>

<p>nice....</p>

<p>I really like this one especially. Wonderful to match up the color shots with the ones from the film, and the commentary is art, if not poetry. ;)</p>

<p>And they DO look like the Beatles walking !</p>

<p>Nice work, Gene.</p>

<p>I went to Expo 67 with my parents and brothers. It was quite a drive from The Bronx in our 1963 Dodge Dart. The gas we bought was Fina and the Imperial Gallon made us feel we were getting away with something. I remember that we stayed in someone's house, downstairs. When we got up we saw Captain Kagaroo in French. The parking lot was marked with different animals and colors so you could find your car even if you couldn't read French or English. I remember Man And His World and the Soviet pavillion, celebrating 50 years. There was the odd looking Habitat which I think is an apartrment complex today. When I was in Quebec in 1973 there was a lot of division between French speakers and English speakers. In 1967 I don't remember seeing any of that. I remember my father once commenting that Canada was the way the United States used to be, a lot of wide open spaces and not too many people. Maybe it was the time and maybe it was just being young but 1967 seems like a long time ago when there wasn't as much to worry about. That's the magic of being a kid. Your parents do the worrying for you. </p>

<p>Fascinating. With most of your found films it's impossible to know exactly where they were taken, though time is often guessable at least to the decade. Here, for once, you know where quite precisely! Nice work recovering these ancient images.</p>

<p>Excellent Jeff.</p>

<p>I was born in Canada earlier that year and Expo was pretty much the first time I was taken anywhere cool. There are photos of me at the event. My parents were on the cutting edge and had switched to the compact 127 format. I look cranky in the photos, probably because they weren't letting me take the pictures.</p>

 

<p>Canada, huh? I like their maple syrup, and their mail charges seem very high...Great find, <strong>Gene</strong>, and the usual skillful assembly of text and graphics. Many thanks.</p>

Ah Gene, memories. Attached is a picture of the Habitat that Jeff mentions.

The evening before it was taken, Charles DeGaulle made a speech in front of the Montreal city hall which was widely interpreted as a call for Quebec to separate from Canada. Ther were expectations that if that happened the western provinces would also separate and become a new country and that the we would then admit the maritime provinces as new statesin the U.S.

DeGaulle visited the French pavillion the next day and returned to France.<div></div>

<p>A wonderful treat to see these. Amateur snaps like this have always been more interesting to me than the enthusiast's photography. I actually took black and white pictures in this vein at Expo 67 with a Polaroid Model 160 and a Diana plastic toy camera. They would be priceless to me now, but unfortunately, they were lost at some point when my folks moved at various times... else they are hidden in their stuff somewhere. No, these aren't mine, because mine were already developed and printed.</p>

<p>Charles and others, you are lucky to have visited Expo 67. As a poor student studying abroad, it wasn't in the cards. Rick, in Canada we say "Canada, eh", and not "Canada, huh", but we understand you. Gene's "Oh, Canada" is the exclamation of the great American writer/critique, Edmund Wilson. President De Gaulle visited Quebec then, taking the Louis XIV (maybe in honour of Louis XV, not sure which) Royal Road, up the St-Lawrence between Quebec and Montreal, to cheering crowds in the many riverside villages. Québécois nationalism was on the rise. His speech in Montreal was well intentioned politics for him, and got him thrown out of the country by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Apart from the controversies which are part of living in Canada, it was apparently a period most Canadians remember with pleasure, a major national party with an international flavour that no doubt had much to do with a new sensitivity to things "from away" and the multicultural coming of age of the country. Buckminster Fuller's immense globe is still there, as is Moishe Safdie's Habitat revolutionary architecture and the French pavillion (now a popular casino). The construction craze at the time led to the brilliant Montreal Metro subway system, with its quiet rubber tired coaches and its individually and artistically designed stations, the miles of underground streets to combat winter chills, and the modern highways (somewhat in decay and needing refurbishing today, but such is construction in Quebec).</p>

<p>Gene's work is to be appauded (even if he hates "Les Habitants" hockey team - I guess he must live near Boston). It goes to the heart of photography.</p>

<p>Isn't anyone going to comment about Oreos north of the border?</p>

<p>Thanks for the photo <strong>Charles Stobbs</strong>. I always wanted to visit that building , since my county government center was also built in 1967 and inspired by the same architectural style.<br>

<img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4292805727_880f33547c_o.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="480" /> <br>

<a href="http://eloisemoorehead.com/post/346218626/orange-county-government-center-goshen-ny-built">Credit to this site,</a><br>

The main difference being our county residence hate the look of this building ever since it was built . Especially the residence of the Historic colonial village in which it was built in. lol</p>

<p>Love the photos of course, but also love the stories from others on this forum. I have never been to Canada, but my fathers mother, father, sister and brother all emigrated there in the late thirties.<br>

My dad never told me why he was the only one to come to Australia, maybe he had bad wind or something. Anyway, each year a Christmas we received parcels from Canada with pictures of Indians (native Canadians?) Niagara falls and boxes of Maple syrup and Edinburgh rock candy...all seemed very exotic to a young-un.</p>

<p>From one Charles to another: Hi There! Just wanted to correct the name of your image; it's Habitat 67 (or just Habitat) and not Habitat for Humanity. Ah-such great memories!! regards, cb :-)</p>

<p>The interesting thing about Safde's innovative Habitat, compared to other apparently similar forms, like the more recent Orange County building or the Southside residence at Imperial College, London, is the juxtaposition of each living unit and its accompanying and isolated balcony/garden space on top of an underlying unit. Much different than the regular, connected and less independent balcony relations of more conventional condominiums or apartment buldings. Expo 67 had some amazing architectural and social facets to it and its legacy lives on.</p>