Gary Walsh I was the same age that summer. I had a "passport" and was there several times a week, often serving as the tour guide for out-of-town relatives. This video brings back wonderful memories!
Hello, I am an architecture student at McGill University, and I am writing a paper about expo 67. I hope I could interview you about your amazing experience at Expo! Great help for me! Thanks!!!!
We spent a week there in July 67. My parents rented somebody's apartment for the week in Montreal. Expo was really cool for a 9 year old like myself. The next three weeks were even more fun, as we explored Quebec City and north along the St Lawrence until we ran out of paved road.
us too!!! we had a 65 Pontiac parisenne and drove to montreal from Toronto...our rental was like a row house with metal stairs going up to the door, but we never took a picture and neither parent remembers what street.....just remember those subway cars running on tires and expo will be embedded in my memory for the rest of my life.....
Hello, I am an architecture student at McGill University, and I am writing a paper about expo 67. I hope I could interview you about your amazing experience at Expo! Great help for me!
This is so wonderful! Thank you! It reminds me of my dad's home movies. I love the silence. I was there on the official opening night April 28, 1967, 50 years ago. I was 17 and it was all so exciting!
Hello, I am an architecture student at McGill University, and I am writing a paper about expo 67. I hope I could interview you about your amazing experience at Expo! Great help for me! Thank you!!!
Thank-you for a great video/blog on the ‘67 World’s Fair! I loved that fair & went there in a day bus tour from Spfld., Ma with a girlfriend, when I was 17 years old. We had the very best time ever & what I remember the most is the “HABITAT APARTMENT COMPLEX” & to this day it is what I remember the most about this fair! I had such a good time!♥️
Fantastic! The Osheaga music festival is held at the park every summer, and there are still some remnants of Expo'67 there. It is nice to see a colour home-movie of that time.
Great all around footage, super color. I was just a 7 year old kid, and we lived 1 hour outside Montreal, and my dad took us at least once a week during that summer. It was some thing special for Montreal, plus we opened our new metro, new Decarie Blvd., and it was announce that we were just granted a new baseball team called....you guess it the EXPOS.
Hello, I am an architecture student at McGill University, and I am writing a paper about expo 67. I hope I could interview you about your amazing experience at Expo! Great help for me! Thank you!
How great that you lived so close to this amazing fair! Your father taking you all there at least once a wk through out the summer had to be the most exciting thing to do! How great that he took you all & the stories that you must going there that often, you truly got a good “taste & perception” of that fair! You should think about writing a book of your memories from that fair! I know everyone that lived that fair & there are so many, would absolutely love reading your book! I know I would! Ha! Thanks for sharing such great memories & stories of the fair with us all!♥️
Thanks for this brought back many vivid memories of a wonderful time! It was like visiting future world for a kid let me tell you. Everyone was excited and truly felt the world was going to be a wonderful and better place!
How exciting is that? What great stories he must have told you about helping to build it. Thanks for sharing with us all, that so very interesting information !
What a LOVELY piece of film, it brought back lots of good memories. A time that has long gone and will NEVER be done again !!! Thank you for sharing it...
Wow. At 59 I try (and usually succeed) in avoiding the loathsome impulse to be nostalgic, but it was tough while watching this home movie because my dad and I went to Expo 67 in the summer of (what else?) '67. I was not quite 12. I remember visiting the U.S. pavilion designed by Buckminster Fuller, remember riding in the hovercraft your grandfather caught once or twice on film speeding over the water, remember visiting the Kodak pavilion, which Kodak artfully designed to look like the carousel from its popular carousel slide projectors. (Your grandfather caught it on film, too.) Expo 67 was all about media, and the Kodak pavilion's draw was the 360 degree screen the company installed to show a film intended to surround the audience on all sides. (Alas, aside from an all-enveloping shot of Canadian mounted police I can't remember a damned thing about it.) As much fun as it was, the lines were astronomical. I remember an exhibition called Labyrinth whose queues were literally 4-hours long; there were strategically placed signs along the route that supplied time advisories, e.g., 1 HOUR 45 MINUTES WAITING TIME FROM HERE. Is there anything out there today I'd be willing to stand in line for 4 hours to see? Nothing springs to mind.
Dick Hartzell The 360 degree screen was actually at the Bell Telephone pavilion. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_Pavilion_%28Expo_67%29] Bits of Labyrinth have been posted to You Tube where you don't have to wait four hours to see them (as I did, too!)
Don Irvine Good lord, Don -- I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing out my error. Looks like I substituted an all-but-defunct company (Kodak) for an officially defunct company (Bell Telephone). About the bits of Labyrinth that have been posted to RU-vid: my memory is that Labyrinth displayed two screens -- one positioned conventionally at a right angle to the floor and the other placed like a bath mat in front of it. The only inventive use I can recall of this dual-screen setup involved someone tossing a pebble from the vertical screen so that it then plopped into a pool shown on the horizontal screen in front of it. It's hard to imagine how RU-vid could handle footage like that!
Hello, I am an architecture student at McGill University, and I am writing a paper about expo 67. I hope I could interview you about your amazing experience at Expo! Great help for me! Thank you very much!
I don't usually add public comments to RU-vid, but felt compelled to commend you on making this available. As others have commented, the image quality is amazing especially when compared to the super-8 films of that time. I turned 12 during the fair. I still have a crude scrapbook that I put together some fifty years ago. expo67 was a truly magical experience.
WOW! I grew up in Montréal and was 6 in the summer of '67. Going to Expo and La Ronde all summer long was truly Out of this World for me. Very hard to believe it's going to be 50 years soon. I always thought it would be Amazing if Montréal had another Expo in 2017. Thanks to your Grandfather for filming and to you for posting this. Your Grandfather must have been a visionary because his recordings covered so much ground that I have not seen in the other films posted and such Quality. I had forgotten about the elephants and camels, the Hovercrafts, the water-skiers in the lagoon, the Burma and Iran pavilions and how there were so many gondoliers (sky-trains) always going across the site. Thanks again
Wow, thank you, Jeff, for posting this from your grandfather's visit. I went there with my high school class when I was 16. It was so exciting to experience it! This past summer in June of 2017, I visited it again, 50 years later, and took several pictures. I am now putting my pictures (along with others taken on this trip including Habitat 67). I've been researching the past history of the Biosphere and came across your posting. It was wonderful revisiting Expo '67 as it was back then. Thank you! :)
Jamais les Québécois n'auront réalisé un tel événement depuis, une telle exposition héritée après que l'URSS se soit désistée, en à peine quatre ans après son octroi. En même temps, se construisaient le métro (dont les excavations ont servi à construire l'Île Notre-Dame), toute l'infrastructure routière, le pont Champlain, le tunnel Hippolyte-Lafontaine, etc. Quelle époque ! J'avais seize ans et habitait trop loin de Montréal pour pouvoir en profiter pleinement, comme tous les Montréalais. J'y suis quand même venu trois fois. Quels souvenirs, quelles beautés ! Les Olympiques de 76 n'étaient rien à côté de ce que fut Expo 67. Chapeau au maire Drapeau et son équipe de l'époque qui nous ont offert cette magnifique fenêtre sur le monde d'alors.
Hello Mr. Altman, I work as a researcher for the Centre d'histoire de Montreal in the old Montreal and we are currently working on our next temporary exhibition which will be about Expo 67 and Man and his World in 1968 and 1969. We were wondering if you would agree that we present your grandfather's video in our exhibition? Thank you,
IS THIS YOURS ?? I have been very anxious to know and to indeed SEE the subway train tunnel, tracks, is it STILL being USED ? what's left of ALL the original structure[s] of that whole entire expo. are YOU in Canada ? can you perhaps lead/link me right TO where/how I may/might know/learn, and indeed SEE that subway and the rest of the remaining standings of the expo. can you help me ?
Great video quality ! Would you please tell us more about the restauration process ? My father did shoot a few reels of Super8 which I got tranferred .I am not too happy withe the results though in all fairness , the originals were nowhere close to what you have here. Thx!
Hi Jeff - love this but the shaking camera makes me a bit queasy! Would you mind if I ran the video through an image stabilizer and re-uploaded it crediting you?
It is a good idea for it unfortunately got me queasy as well( like I was riding in a car)! You have a great idea for this is a fantastic video/blog and well done & except for the shaking , just loved this video!♥️
Good restoration, great colors but it seemed to me that some parts if not all have been shoot at 18 fps; also the editing seem that it was done on "speed" pills.
WARNING! i saw some signs in English in this video. i sincerely hope the office de la langue quebekoise is ALL OVER THIS as i am completely and utterly outraged that my fellow Montrealers 48 years ago had the agony of possibly reading said signs. suffice it to say, this would NOT happen today!
