"Multiple Man/L’Homme Multiplie" | Read more at in70mm.com The 70mm Newsletter |
| Written by: Bill Kretzel, Ottawa, Canada | Date: 02.10.2011 |
 "Multiple Man" / "L’Homme Multiplie" (0:15:40). Filmed in:
35mm, 4 perforations,
24 frames per second. Principal photography in: Anamorphic and flat. Presented on:
The curved screen in 70mm with 6-track magnetic stereo. Aspect ratio:
2,21:1. Country of origin: Canada. Production year: 1969. World Premiere:
17.07.1969, Man and His World theatre, Montreal Fair, Canada. German premiere:
09.10.2011Direction & Visual Design Georges Dufaux, Claude Godbout. Film Editing by Georges Dufaux and Claude Godbout. Photography Gilles Gascon. Assistant Editor Claude Le Gallou. Optical Effects Wally Howard, Alex Simard, Ron Moore, Matt Grade. Moog Synthesizer André Perry, Buddy Fasano, (Les Productions André Perry Ltée). Sound Edward Haley. Sound Editing Jean-Pierre Joutel. Title Animation Pierre Hébert. Re-Recording Edward Haley. Michel Descombes, Jean-Pierre Joutel. Producers Robert Forget & Clément Perron. Produced by The National Film Board of Canada. | More in 70mm reading: Canadian 70mm Short Films Schauburg 2011 Festival Program The Lost Dominion 70mm Film Festival CINERAMA and large-frame motion picture exhibition in Canada 1954-1974 Internet link: Large format in Canada National Film Board of Canada |
Background | |
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Commissioned as a presentation for the ‘Terre des Hommes’ annual exhibition
held on the site of Expo 67 in Montreal, where it was premiered to the
public on July 17, 1969 and presented continuously daily until September 7,
1969 in a 300-capacity cinema (formerly the Canadian National pavilion venue
for the 70mm film "Motion"), and subsequently released theatrically in 35mm
anamorphic and 16mm letterbox versions. A many-faced view of humanity, of global man in all his forms and interests. Produced originally in 70 mm (with stereophonic sound) for showing at Man and His World, the Montréal fair that succeeded Expo 67, this film employs the multi-image technique. People of all places, origins, cultures, secular and religious, are here united and seen side by side, creating an impressive, inspiring and challenging portrait. The film's title appears in seven languages. Film without words. | |
Awards | |
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Award for Exceptional Merit International Festival of Short Films November 13 to 18 1971, Philadelphia - USA Grand Trophy Tisquesusa Dorado International Festival of Short Films October 15 to 26 1971, Bogota - Colombia Accepted and Programmed Golden Gate Awards Competition & International Film Festival October 2 to 17 1971, San Francisco - USA First Prize - Category Experimental film SODRE International Festival of Documentary and experimental Films July 2 1971, Montevideo - Uruguay First Prize and Gold Medal International Week of Cinema in Colour October 24 to November 1 1970, Barcelona - Spain First Prize - Silver Plaque pour the Modern Techniques International Short Film Festival October 15 to 30 1970, Buenos Aires - Argentina First Prize - Gold Plaque for Best Film of the Festival International Short Film Festival October 15 to 30 1970, Buenos Aires - Argentina | |
Promotional Text (1969) (transcribed) | |
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This is a multi-image presentation of Man himself - man in all his variety,
the universal man that Expo 67 did so much to proclaim. Much of the film is
taken from film made during or for showing at the 1967 world exhibition in
Montreal, but it is an imaginative style of borrowing. Often only details
were lifted and enlarged from the original shooting. And in "Multiple Man",
several pictures appear on the screen at the same time, so that the audience
has the chance to compare. What is compared is the way Man is - in many
places, at many occupations, pleasures, pursuits. | |
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