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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1966-06-02, Page 6THURSDAY, 1:T.TINTZ 2nd, 1966 BRUSSELS TRANSPORT SAFE DEPENDABLE 'ittUCKING SERVICE Ship Pigs On Monday A.M. if Monday Holiday — Ship Tuesday Cattle Trucking Service to or from Brussels anywhere within Ontario Phone George Jutzi Brussels 122 veil falls almost at arms length. They will "ride the back" of a deer in flight, peek. into :the win- dows of Montreal skysprapers and experience the sight and sound of stenographers at their work and stockbrokers in action. They will view skiers and mountain climb- ers, wheat priners, miners and prospectorS, lumbermen, assembly- line ••P'roductions, football clubs, outdoor activities of various ethnic groups and of the first Canadians — the Indians. Don't miss Helicopter Canada when it cornea to your area. in 1967. TI BRUSSELS POST, BRUSSELS ,ONTARIO 1867 1967 'aVNNWIA .LFICSHOEMR MISSIONER Report No. 6 Before the end of this year a full-length Canadian feature film will be, released to Great Britain, the United States and other count- ries. It is • certain to encourage people to visit our country during the 1967 Centennial. The film called Helicopter Canada, an hour-long Panavista production for wide screens, will be shown in our own cinemas dur- ing 1967. Helicopter Canada is the first full length moving picture feature to he made entirely from, a heli- copter-in-flight anywhere in the world. It is an exciting coast-to coast color sweep of Canada its geography, its wildlife, its people and its way of life. It is being produced by the National Film. Board of Canada for and with the aid of the Centennial Comanission. Peter Jones is the producer and George Salverson is the script writer. The director- camerman is Eiugene "Jeep" Boy- ko of the National Film Board staff who had some interesting experiences filming this project across Canada from the open, door of a helicopter. Boyko was horn in Saskatoon, has been a dishwasher, shipyard worker, private chatiffer in' var- ious parts of the country and he was a country-and-western, singer in Saskatoon in 1937' when a broadcaster named Sack Wells tagged him, with his nickanme, Jeep, after a comic strip creature. In the 40's Boyko was a taxi driver in Vancouver when a pas- senger went on vacation leaving her camera in the cab. He used it to shoot, a traffic accident and sold the picture to a local paper for $5. This sent him into photog- raphy and he wound up at the Na- tional Film Board in 1951. Boyko's home when he gets there, is In ;Lorraine, Quebec; he has a wife one daughter, 10, and one son, 3. By means of Seep Boyko's camera, background narration, dia- logue and sound. effects, the view- er in the Cinema audience will be making a trip across the country, discovering Canada as though he were in that helicopter. The 'copter during shooting, was able to get as close to the face of any- thing as its blades permitted and hovered from six to 600 feet, Boyko spent more than'a year on the filming —a good deal or the time. ',500 feet up in, the air, crash h.elmet on head, hanging out the side of a French-built turbine helicopter (the Alouette). In one year he shot 96,000 feet of film and travelled from Newfoutiland o Victoria. An anti-vibration mount for the camera was a French-made unit, first used in the making of the French films "The Red Balloon" and "Voyage in a Balloon". it permits a pict- ure while hovering vibration is eliminated in this clever device. In Toronto Boyko hovered a few- feet above Nathan Phillips • Square for a dramatic view of the new clam-shell city hall. He caught the Old Fort Henry Guard at Kingston, doing its drill. The helicopter camera shot the convoluted tubing and towers of a vast oil refinery complex at Ed- monton, paddle wheelers, rising new buildings in western cities, the lush North Saskatchewan River Valley; in. Montreal the• helicopter made fiar4y4 around the," new skyscrapers; in, Saskatche! Wan it caught a fast-moving freight train travellitig through rilrairie town, a truck leaving high dust plum behind, it, down a road to a lone elevator standing stark against the prairie horizon In, 'Newfoundland the camera Made contact witli a lighthouse keeper and a ship's skipper seek- ing guidance into the 'harbour thus symbolizing the entry to Canada, throttgh her most east- ern gateway, The film's viewers will have a sensation of being virtually on. the surface of the gorge beneath the Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, and being on a slow trip straight. up the face of the bridal y• 1 MR SALE — PIFT FURNITURE For weddings. 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