A Place to Stand (1967) 

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]

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.

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

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.

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

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. 😢

RIP Dolores Claman, composer of this soundtrack and the Hockey Night in Canada theme.

I've been waiting to see this again. This is the Ontario , Canada I grew up with. Great memories. Heritage film. Golden! Thanks

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.

Such a beautiful, creative film about Ontario, Canada. Thoroughly enjoyed it. It's the Canada that I was lucky enough to grow up in.

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'll be 15 in two weeks so may I still say that *IM 14 AND THIS IS DEEP*

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!

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!

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.

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.

I just found a 70mm print of this film. It is missing the opening title. Glad I found this.

this is one of the greatest moments in canadian history

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.

Looking back through time, from 2024 ? I want THAT Ontario back again !!

I remember being transfixed by this film. It was breathtaking. I'm trying to remember if the theatre was a surround concept... ?

We will never feel this sense of optimism again

beautiful Ontario, epic-ally captured

This film was considered to be a ground-breaking way to make a documentary and inspired the movie of the "Woodstock" concert!

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 ! :)

I look forward to more videos.Keep it up!

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!

Memories!

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?"

RIP doloros

10:37 Depicting the manufacturing of cigarettes is not something would "celebrate on film" today.

The last time the Leafs won the Cup...

Ontari-ari-ari-Oh!

Lots of things not allowed to be praised now...strip mining, deforestation, smoking, shooting at ducks, etc

What's the guy drinking at 1:40

This is the opposite of Koyaaniqatsi.

What movies were shown with this short

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.

WTH happened in 50 years... in debt/ corruptions/ crowdedness/ welfare/ 3 rd world status

Let’s talk about the film, not politics. Kay?

The tree-hugging Liberal Party of Ontario today would definitely not approve of this.

9:51 nice apron