{"id":410,"date":"2007-12-21T16:20:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T20:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=410"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:25:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:25:57","slug":"old-montreal-in-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/12\/21\/old-montreal-in-1964\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Montreal in 1964"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/cinerobot\/cinerobotheque\/IMG428x321_WEB\/64\/64133\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Over the years, the National Film Board has produced a lot of great films on Canada&#8217;s cities. Unfortunately, they haven&#8217;t done much to make them web-accessible, so unless you order it online or head down to the Latin Quarter&#8217;s Cin\u00e9roboth\u00e8que, where you can watch any NFB film ever made, you&#8217;re stuck looking at crummy RealPlayer clips online.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there&#8217;s some interesting stuff. One film in particular caught my eye: 1964&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/collection\/films\/fiche\/?id=11587\">Down Through the Years<\/a><\/i>, by Jacques Giraldeau, which offers a wordless tour of Old Montreal. The neighbourhood we see is not the quaintly touristy one we&#8217;re used to; it&#8217;s grimy, quiet and neglected, a deeply unfashionable part of the city that 1960s Montrealers were eager to ignore. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/collection\/films\/fiche\/vPlayer.php?id=11587\">Check out the clip<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/cinerobot\/cinerobotheque\/IMG428x321_WEB\/64\/64133\/7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/cinerobot\/cinerobotheque\/IMG428x321_WEB\/64\/64133\/p.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, the National Film Board has produced a lot of great films on Canada&#8217;s cities. Unfortunately, they haven&#8217;t done much to make them web-accessible, so unless you order it online or head down to the Latin Quarter&#8217;s Cin\u00e9roboth\u00e8que, where you can watch any NFB film ever made, you&#8217;re stuck looking at crummy RealPlayer<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/12\/21\/old-montreal-in-1964\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Old Montreal in 1964&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7837,7838,7839],"tags":[283,34,14,1534,125,701,78],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-neighbourhoods","tag-canada","tag-video","tag-historical","tag-jacques-giraldeau","tag-montreal","tag-national-film-board","tag-old-montreal-vieux-montreal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Old Montreal in 1964 - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/12\/21\/old-montreal-in-1964\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Old Montreal in 1964 - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over the years, the National Film Board has produced a lot of great films on Canada&#8217;s cities. 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