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Where the North Begins

Item number (ISN):

467921

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1970

Item number (ISN):

467921

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Accession:

2004-1193

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1970

Release date:

1971

Production company:

A Reason Associates Films Limited Production

Production credit:

producer, David Mackay; producer, David Mackay; photography, Robert Ryan; assistant, Robert New

Description:

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“Where the North Begins” was one of the 4 original regional portrait films commissioned for the first season of Ontario Place (the others being "North of Superior" (IMAX), "Seasons in the Mind" (70mm), and "Home By The Waters" (35mm anamorphic). The film was directed by David MacKay who was the producer for "A Place to Stand" and then directed "Ontario-oh!". The Ontario Place Cinesphere in Toronto was the first permanent IMAX screen in the world with a screen 80ft by 60ft that still projects IMAX. Commissioned as one of four large-format short subject productions for Ontario Place, Toronto - a lakeside recreation and entertainment complex developed by the provincial government to showcase culture and tourism, where it premiered to the public on June 11, 1971 as part of the daily repertory screening schedule to October 11, 1971 (and also in the spring of 1972) in Cinesphere >, an 800-capacity film venue designed for the first permanent IMAX installation. Each of the four films produced for the inaugural Cinesphere season in 1971 was a documentary portrait of one region of the province - "Where the North Begins" being devoted to north-central Ontario. Info by Bill Kretzel from in70mm.com <22mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Nudes being censored from Ontario Place movie By Brown, Jeremy
Daily Star-Toronto / 3 September 1971 / page 31
Ontario Place film-goers haven’t been seeing David Mackay’s $150,000 film "Where the North Begins" in Cinesphere during the last two weeks because several minutes showing two almost-nude girls are being censored out. It’s unlikely it’ll be re-edited in time to be played before the season ends. Mackay’s film is one of a $1,000,000 package of four films commissioned by Jim Ramsay, dean of Ontario Place. ~2. The uncut version resides at the Ontario Development Corp and was played once more in 2010 during a 70mm film festival run by the Lost Dominion Screening Collective.

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Vault ISN:

652555

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

16105AV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

868256

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

467921-001.WAV
467921-002.WAV
467921-003.WAV
467921-004.WAV
467921-005.WAV
467921-006.WAV

Number of items:

6

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

20:12

Made from:

16105AV

Status:

MASTER
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Ontario Development Corporation

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