Description: EXPO67 - Great Britian Pavilion - Montreal, Quebec - CANADA: The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, commonly known as Expo 67, was a general exhibition from April 28 to October 29, 1967. It was a category one world's fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is considered to be one of the most successful World's Fairs of the 20th century with the most attendees to that date and 62 nations participating. It also set the single-day attendance record for a world's fair, with 569,500 visitors on its third day. British planning began several years earlier. The Central Office of Information (COI) was the driving force behind it. In March 1965 Sir Basil Spence, a Scottish architect who designed buildings in a modernist or Brutalist style, was announced as the designer of the British Pavilion. Spence’s design was a massive white pavilion and a monumental 200ft tower which displayed a three-dimensional Union Jack – all set out on a stepped concourse. The style of the architecture was futuristic and stark (you may see some similarities with The National Archives’ main building at Kew). The Pavilion had five exhibition areas –a publicity leaflet described them:- Shaping the Nation: ‘takes the visitor through 3,000 years of history, evoked by dramatic use of shapes, sounds, colour and projected images’.- The Genius of Britain: ‘recalls the achievements of many famous British men and women’ and celebrates ‘outstanding contributions to human progress’'- Britain Today: ‘presents the British at home, work and at play’'- Industrial Britain: ‘shows how Britain in the sixties is moving into a new industrial era’, thanks to automation and new technology (described as an ‘Aladdin’s cave’ of industry)'- Britain in the World: this section was ‘dominated by giant sculptured figures symbolizing Man and his world’ and featured a series of displays showing Britain’s part in international affairs'This Photochromatic postcard is in good condition. Plastichrome of Canada. Benjamin News Co. Montreal 3, Canada. No. EX213.
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Unit of Sale: Single Unit
Size: Standard (5.5x3.5 in)
Material: Paper
City: Montreal
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Brand/Publisher: Benjamin News Co.
Subject: EXPO67 - Great Britian Pavilion
Continent: North America
Type: Printed (Lithograph)
Era: Photochrome (1939-Now)
Country: Canada
Region: Quebec
Theme: Architecture, Cities & Towns, Countries, Exhibitions, Exposition, United Kingdom, Geat Britian, EXPO67
Features: Panoramic
Time Period Manufactured: 1960-1969
Country/Region of Manufacture: Canada
Postage Condition: Yes
