A Place to Stand

[hamzamuhammad15]

T-Dot, ON FTW

[Fmaack]

Republic of ONTARIO! DO IT!

[GeorgeFido]

Wow! Wonder if we'll ever go back to that! Connan brought it back a few years back...

[g4tech]

my grade 9 Geography teacher would also say ontario like they say in this video

[keswin3350]

Alberta FTW!!!

[kurisutasora]

i actually have the record for this. my grampa was with my sister getting a bunch of record and this one was in it so she took it XD havent lissend to it yet need to get my record player in order XD

[horsesoldier001]

i just thought of this and hey it was on YouTube...yeah!!!  I love Ontario.

[Autostade67]

Other good ones for a Canada Day mix: Lightfoot's "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" (1967), "Un jour, un jour" (1967), "This is my Home" (1986 - Canada Pavilion Theme, Expo 86), and, of all unlikely things, Jane Siberry's "Hockey" (1990?)

[Autostade67]

Damn, I love being Canadian!

[leo81960]

I was at Expo '67 when I was only 7. My memories are fuzzy except for a period when everything came to a brief halt for the Queen's visit. I don't recall if I saw this film at that time, but later in college a 16mm print was shown in one of my classes. A number of years later I found a print at a film collector's show which is posted now on my channel.

[erpexec]

Does anyone know if you can download this and Bobby Gimby;s Canada song, or if it can be purchased anywhere, tried Itunes, puretracks and others, came up empty, would love to have this in my library for Canada Day parties

[quietscapes]

wow, this brings back memories of my childhood.....still living in Ontario!

[rglewingdon]

I would love to see the film again as it was shown in the Ontario Pavillion at Expo 67. That song brings back some wonderful memories. Thanks for posting.

[iluvdesmond]

I sang this all the way from Ontario to Montreal when we went to Expo 67 - along with the Canada song. Drove my family crazy - just an added benefit :-). Brings a little tear to my eye now knowing how fast time goes by ...thanks for posting!

[euphfellowship]

Can't wait to come home.

[jakeparr]

Ontario FTW!

[cornwallthedragon]

I have this on a 45 somewhere.

[QueenrocksMom]

Would make a great ringtone!

[calvintoronto]

This film is actually a breakthrough in filming, in was the first effort to use multiple panes in one screen. It won the Academy Award for Best Short in 1967. You can see the effects today in shows like "24." The song was written by the same woman who wrote the Hockey Night in Canada Theme Song.

WTG Ontario!!

[kenjn60]

Ontari-ari-ari-o! Hooray! I am not Canadian, but having heard this song on CHCH-TV out of Hamilton when I was a kid, it's been in my head ever since. Glad to find it here! Thank you.

[Ronestar]

Fuckin' A!

[DarkRage4]

o ya Canada rocks!

[ningwiebmer]

I love this song! I love Ontario! Canada Rocks! Ning

[Synthcatt]

great harmonies

[MotorCity1370]

Thank you, Dolores Claman! A beautiful song and a terrific arrangement.

[GoodguyNYS]

This 18-minute film was created by Ontario's greatest filmmaker, Christopher Chapman, for the Ontario pavilion at Expo 67. It was the first film to use multiple moving images on a single screen to tell a story (and without titles or narration). Chapman's poetic juxtaposition of the images won him the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Subject. Subsequent films mimicked

Chapman's technical accomplishment but none suprpassed his creative style. The song became well known in the U.S., too.

[Tigerboy83]

That must have been the film I saw at Ontario place when I was a kid in 1977. Haven't seen it since.  I'd love to find a copy, especially since I was born in 1967.

[Voodoo067]

That was it. It was shown at Ontario Place to mark the 110th anniversary of confederation. While I had seen it before, I saw it lots of times that summer. Like you, I would love to get a video copy (ideally Blu-ray in the proper aspect ratio). It would be interesting to see what's changed (and what hasn't) in Ontario in the 42 years since.

[fugue83]

I wish more people remembered this song, and all the good things Ontario stood for before cable brought the 'south of the border' attitudes!

[celticpenguin]

Too right fugue83

[waynetow]

I can recall Jim Carrey singing part of this on a Talk Show a year or so ago...

[sjcma]

This was not a television commercial. It was part of a documentary short film that won an Oscar in 1967.

[calvintoronto]

I remember watching TVO as a kid in the 60s and they played portions of this song in their breaks. Would that be correct? Did TVO adapt it?

[Retardidid]

"A place to stand, a place to grow Ontari-ari-ari-o"

god i love canada, i know this shits cheesy, but its canadian

[barkerfrac]

Every day I visited the expo 67 site the first pavilion I visited was the Ontario one so that I could get a shot of goodness just listening and watching this film.

[sailormatlac]

It's kitsch, but good kistch, it sticks in your head and for a moment, you could buy a house there... ^^

[7NTM61Ic]

I disagree, it's a great song.

[Footix]

I would love to see this made our official provincial song.

[CanadaguyRudey]

CHINA deal- we use to have pride in our country/ province till the early 70's and the someting happened in Canada. Every kids in Ontario learned this song. Thats why it may mean something to some of us. It was also one of the first films to use the split screen which is used in many crappy movies CHINA you may watch.

CHINA do you have to insult everyone.

If you don't like the song, move on.

[jimmyjazz420]

Classic.I love it

[frontenac303]

this won the academy award for best live action short....thats ridiculous.

[jjadegreen]

No one had ever seen a movie with multiple, moving, split-screen images before. This filmaker invented this technique and this movie was the first ever like it and was dazzling to people.

At the first screening at in Hollywood Steve McQueen happened to be there and was blown away by it. The next movie Steve McQueen starred in "The Thomas Crown Affair" directed by Norman Jewison had some split-screen sequences using the new technique.

Rest is history - from movies to commercials

[CHINAdeals]

Shorter version?

That song is horrendous, sorry canadguyrudey :X

[CanadaguyRudey]

Longer version???

[CanadaguyRudey]

Love this song. Learned this in school early 70's.

Ontario is a dump now.

[TheAstroZombie]

Norman Jewison was inspired by this commercial to use split screen in The Thomas Crown Affair.