Photostory #438: Inside Expo 67

Photographers
Chris Lund
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
March 14, 1967
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
With the countdown to E-Day - April 28 - being slickly monitored by space-age business techniques, the Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition's headquarters staff have all systems go. Directing the efforts of a 10,000-strong army of workers busy on the final stages of preparing 1,000 acres of man-made wonders, the corporation's control centres are also running a network of other operations. Using the modern technology of computers, electronic automatic telephones and the latest in other communication devices, they are keeping a constant watch on such things as the available accommodation within 100 miles of the world's fair, the training of more than 200 multi-lingual, charming hostesses, the maintenance of a vast information service and the polishing and testing of elaborate control techniques to smooth the paths of 35 million visitors expected between April 28 and October 27 - when Expo 67 will present an exciting pageant of man's achievements by the nations of the world.
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