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November 9 Bonus Screening: The City and the Future
7pm • Toronto Free Gallery • Free/PWYC
Toronto Boom Town (Canada, 1951 • 10min)
Director: Leslie McFarlane • Producer: Sydney Newman
A contrast between the sedate Toronto of the turn of the century and the thriving, expanding metropolis of 1951. Aerial views give evidence of the conversion of the old Toronto into the new — the city with towering skyscrapers, teeming traffic arteries, vast industrial developments and far-reaching residential areas housing over a million people. Toronto's forward march of progress is also Canada's, as manifested in the building of Canada's first subway, and in the excited bustle of the nation's greatest trading center — the Toronto Stock Exchange — where her vast resources are translated into soaring financial figures.
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November 9 Bonus Screening: The City and the Future
7pm • Toronto Free Gallery • Free/PWYC
Trafficopter (Canada, 1972 • 10min)
Director: Barrie Howells • Producer: Barrie Howells
A view of Montréal as seen from the helicopter of one of the radio stations that reports on rush-hour traffic movement. Spread out below are the ant-runs of the city — freeways, interchanges, bridges, downtown arteries — and on them the thousands of vehicles, like so many dinky-toys, moving with the flow or jammed in massive tie-ups. It is a seething, teeming spectacle, a unique view of the city, artfully filmed, with comments by the traffic guide, Len Rowcliffe.
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November 9 Bonus Screening: The City and the Future
7pm • Toronto Free Gallery • Free/PWYC
Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 6: The City and the Future (Canada, 1963 • 28min)
Directors: Mogens Gander, Jacques Giraldeau, Robert Humble, Kirk Jones, Derek Knight, Jean-Claude Labrecque, Claus Loof, Ian MacNeill, Terence Macartney-Filgate, Doug McKay, Reginald Morris, Erik Nielsen, Bryan Probyn, Donald Wilder • Producer: Ian MacNeill
An inevitable and urgent choice must be made between low-grade urban sprawl and a new kind of regional city. This last film of a groundbreaking six-part series examines prospects for the city and ways to restore its role. Lewis Mumford would go on to become an outspoken critic of the late Jane Jacobs, and the two sparred often.
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November 9 Bonus Screening: The City and the Future
7pm • Toronto Free Gallery • Free/PWYC
A City Is (Canada, 1972 • 18min)
Director: James Carney • Producer: Barrie Howells
More than buildings, more than people, a city is a total expression of purpose and aspiration, past and present. This is a multi-image look at the conglomerate city, composed of a whole stream of visual and auditory impressions presented without commentary. Often the screen subdivides — two, three, a dozen images appear at the same time, creating a counterpoint of the turbulence and discord, the harmony and sophistication of the big city.
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