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A Place to Stand

A Place to Stand

7,3 /10 (12 Votes)
1967 EN 17 min

Overview

An Academy Award winning multi-image large-format film showcasing life in Ontario without narration or dialogue but accompanied by the classic song "A Place to Stand, a Place to Grow (Ontari-ari-ari-o!)" Produced for the Ontario Department of Economics and Development, it premiered at the Ontario Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal.

Release date

28/04/1967

Votes

12

Popularity

0.2

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

17 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-11-30

⭐ 6

“#A place to stand, a place to grow, Ontariariario…#”. And oddly enough, fifty years on this is reminiscent of those interstitials we get at the Eurovision song contest when each host country exhibiting something beautiful or quirky about itself. This one condenses all that is impressive about this Canadian province into a quickly paced montage of moving photographs that depict just about everything from it’s human resources to it’s natural ones. Virgin and ancient forests and pristine lakes contrast with industrial scale logging and mining; the vast expanses of open grassland with the metropo…

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