All language subtitles for Helicopter.Canada.1966

[YODELING MUSIC]

- NARRATOR: The 100th anniversary

of Canadian Confederation,

and high time to take some
pictures of the centenarian.

"Take it from the top," they said.

"Show us the old girl, warts and all."

And away we went.

[YODELING MUSIC]

Canada was once knee deep in ice.

It began to warm up
about 20,000 years ago.

That process is almost complete.

It is now warm enough to
swim in most of Canada

at least part of the time.

- MAN: Hey, there's
a helicopter up there!

- NARRATOR: These are Canadian natives.

See how happy they are to see visitors.

Their land is very rich,
and as you can see,

they have lots of fun playing in it.

[CROWD SHOUTING]

- Give me the ball.

- I got it!

- NARRATOR: Canadians live
right next door to Americans

and have to protect themselves.

- SOLDIER: Rea-dy!

[GUNS FIRING]

- Fire!

[CANNON FIRING]

- Fire!

[CANNON FIRING]

- NARRATOR: This fort was
built for just such a purpose.

[SHOUTING]

They practised very hard,
but the Americans never came,

so now they pretend to practice

and Americans pay money to watch.

- Fire!

[CANNON FIRING]

[LAID-BACK MUSIC]

- NARRATOR: Canada
has pieces of landscape

to match every spot on the
globe, except tropical jungle.

In 1867, they joined the pieces together

to make a new nation of it,

and they kept adding to it until 1949

when they finally talked
Newfoundland into joining it.

[LAID-BACK MUSIC CONTINUES]

Since there are 3,851,809
square miles of it,

you can't see too much in one trip,

but you can get an idea.

A good place to start
is with the Bluenose.

She's sailing out of Lunenburg Harbour

A legend and a win before her

She won all the races of her day

The ghostly sea is only time away

And it's blow boys,
blow my bully boys, blow

Hmmm

Captain Angus Walters
met the Prince of Wales

He rode the seas and fought the gales

He sold his ship to carry freight

The Queen sailed off to meet her fate

And it's blow boys,
blow my bully boys, blow

Hmmm

Now in the memory of other times

She rides as a tale
on the back of a dime

She follows the wind
and answers the call

As seagulls cry to the sea and oh

And it's blow boys,
blow my bully boys, blow

Hmmm

- NARRATOR: The people are not here

just for mists and memories.

Along the coasts of Canada,
they hunt the sea monster.

His eyes are on stalks.

He has six pairs of mouth parts,

20 pairs of gills, and five pairs of legs.

They turn them into Lobster Thermidor

and sell 'em for $2 a pound.

Canadians work on the sea
and the sea works on Canada,

and parents take children to watch.

- CHILDREN: There's some people...

- I can't see.

- There they are!

- There they are.

- That's awfully funny.

- Wow, look at them!

- That looks like an elephant.

- I wonder if there's earth on the rock

where the trees grow.

- I don't think so.

They might just grow into the rock.

- There's clumps of mud.

- They're very beautiful.

- Mud.

I wouldn't like to go there.

It's all mud.

- With rock, it seems.

- Yeah.

- Look at that funny rock.

- It's not rock. It's mud.

- Looks like mud to me.

- Cracked mud.

- The mud's nice and shiny, kind of.

- Yeah.

- NARRATOR: For much of every day,

the Petitcodiac has the
distinction of being a river

without water.

- CHILDREN: That looks like gold.

- The tide is going in.

- The tide is... quite high.

- I wonder how far it...

- Look at the way it's

just kind of creeping in.

- I wonder how far it goes in.

- Probably something like
20 feet or farther maybe.

- NARRATOR: 40 feet, to be exact.

Among the highest tides anywhere.

There's so much energy
in the tides of Fundy

engineers keep talking
about harnessing it.

If they do, it will be the greatest source

of hydroelectric power in the world.

- CHILDREN: It couldn't be.

- There's a boat.

- A boat that's grounded.

- I wonder what kind of a boat it is.

- They're probably just gonna launch it.

- Yeah.

- It's probably just a freight.

- Freight boat.
- Shipyard.

- NARRATOR: The Bay of Fundy,

a place particularly
inconvenient for boats and fish.

- CHILDREN: Mud.

- Sand.
- Mud.

- Sand?

- Mud.

- CHILD: Look at that camp down there.

- I'm not sure that's a camp.

- I see some bright mud.

- No, there's some people down there.

- Oh, it's on a road.

- No, it's a horse.
- It's a horse.

- Two horses.

- Two horses and a cart.

- It's got people in it.

- And they're picking the fish from there.

- I can see those nets
kind of. I can tell.

- NARRATOR: In New Brunswick,
when the tide's out,

you can actually pick
yourself a mess of fish.

- CHILDREN: That's crazy.

[BELL RINGING]

[SUBDUED MUSIC]

- NARRATOR: There are places near the sea

where no tourists come,

places where men go out and
come back shift after shift,

out under the sea to dig for coal.

[SUBDUED MUSIC CONTINUES]

Canadians have always
been great for digging.

They've been digging for a
treasure chest ever since 1795.

[EXPLOSION]

They say it is under Oak island,

that it was buried there by Captain Kidd.

[CHEERFUL MUSIC]

They've been searching for
it since three small boys

one summer's day long ago
discovered a scarred tree

and a curious depression in the ground.

And what could that
mean to three small boys

on a summer's day but pirate gold?

Those three boys dug for a lifetime.

Then others took up the quest,

and they still dig for the treasure.

They've discovered trinkets
and subterranean log beds

and an underground river.

There are other explanations
for these clues,

but who wants other explanations

when there just might be pirate gold?

[BOAT HORNS]

- VOICE OVER SPEAKER: This
is your bursar speaking.

We will be docking in Quebec in one hour.

You are reminded that
immigration officials

clear tourist-class passengers

in the lounge at 1400 hours.

For those passengers
continuing on to Montreal,

there will be no bingo tonight,

but they Happy Haven Farewell Dance

will commence at 2100 hours.

[BOAT HORN]

For disembarking passengers not
holding a Canadian passport,

please remember that you're landing

in the heart of French Canada

and the language spoken
is therefore French.

However, in the larger shops and hotels,

the staff are fluent in English.

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

[WOMAN SINGS IN FRENCH]

[LAID-BACK MUSIC]

- NARRATOR: A couple of
Canadians, could be French

or English or could be one of each.

They're happy because

they've just caught an Atlantic salmon.

There used to be so many Atlantic salmon

even poor people got sick
and tired of eating them.

Now you can pay $50 a day

just for the privilege
of trying to catch one.

They're harder to find.

The rivers are being used more and more

for things that salmon just don't like.

[MELLOW JAZZ]

They've been chopping and
sawing away at the place

for a long time,

but you still can't see
Canada for the trees

and some of the trees
you can't see for apples.

[MELLOW JAZZ CONTINUES]

In that little red car is
a Hydro-Quebec press agent.

He's thinking of adjectives.

Big, huge, immense.

[SPEAKING FRENCH] Magnificent, terrific.

Super-colossal.

He's trying to describe Manicouagan,

the biggest dam of its kind in the world.

It will have to rain for seven years.

The snow will have to
melt for seven years.

Only then will there be enough
water to fill its reservoir.

[HEAVY MACHINERY]

Canadian prospectors never
stop looking for more,

and they've developed little gadgets,

like this magnetometer, to
help them find the stuff.

But sooner or later, you still
have to get down and dig.

O Canada, our home and native land

True patriot love in
all thy sons command

With glowing hearts we see thee rise

The True North strong and free

And stand on guard, O Canada

We stand on guard for thee

O Canada, glorious

[EXPLOSION]

[COIN DROPS, DINGING]

- NARRATOR: Canadians
make more telephone calls

than any other people on Earth.

Fortunately, they also mine more nickel.

[YODELLING MUSIC]

There's a lake of gin
ya can all jump in

And the handouts grow in bunches

In the new-mown hay
we can sleep all day

And the bars all have free lunches

Where the mail train stops
and there ain't no cops

And the folks are tender-hearted

You met Bill Cox with
his pocket full of rocks

And you know that's where he started

Oh, the buzzin' of the
bees in the cigarette trees

And the soda water fountain

Lemonade springs where
the bluebird sings

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

[YODELLING]

[ENGINE STALLS]

- NARRATOR: Canadians dump a
lot of cars in the graveyard,

but they turn out over half
a million new ones every year

to keep themselves moving.

[HORNS HONKING]

- RADIO ANNOUNCER: You were mentioning

about a half hour or so ago that

there was an accident out
at St. James and St. Remi?

The combatants departed
the scene, but boy,

the aftermath is still there.

- SECOND ANNOUNCER: You mean
the traffic's still tied up?

- ANNOUNCER: It is just fierce.

East and westbound traffic backed up

for blocks in both directions.

In fact, coming down the hill eastbound,

the lineup starts before you
get to Girouard,

and then trying to get up
around that little detour

up to upper Lachine Rd. is just murder.

St. Remi is solid bumper to bumper,

so if you're heading
for the St. Remi Tunnel,

you'll have to go on
down south and use the...

[CAR HORNS HONKING]

Well, it's nice to have some good news

to pass on this afternoon.

Both the south shore bridges,
Victoria and Jacques Cartier,

southbound working very well.

And the eastern half of the
elevated, no trouble at all.

- NARRATOR: In Toronto, they've
got a lot of get up and go.

They built a great city hall,

and they all got downtown
for the grand opening.

- SPEAKER: Your Excellency
the Governor General of Canada,

Right Honorable Prime Minister of Canada,

Your Excellency the Ambassador of Finland,

Honorable Prime Minister of Ontario,

my Lord Chief Justices,

and all other representatives
of church and state.

Distinguished guests,
ladies and gentlemen,

it is with feelings of great
joy and deep gratitude...

- I bring you congratulations

of the federal government

to especially those who
made the decisions to build,

for those who designed
and planned the building,

and to all those who worked
on it so that it could be...

- ... and happiness.

In many ways, the soul
and spirit of a city

are reflected in its architecture.

If its buildings are
cramped and outmoded...

[CROWD SCREAMING]

- The little penguin girl,

Hoppy the little frog boy,

the mystery girl, the Cardiff
Giant from Cardiff, New York,

Madame Olga Hiss from Munich, Germany.

In just a very few moments...

[CROWD SCREAMING]

[PLAYFUL MUSIC]

- NARRATOR: All sorts of
visitors come to Toronto,

and the people of Toronto

like to make them feel right at home.

[CROWD SCREAMING]

- CROWD CHANTING: We want The
Beatles! We want The Beatles!

- NARRATOR: Canadians are very proud

of their sophisticated industries

and make things like the
fastest autogyro in the world.

They are very good at making
vehicles of various sorts

because they still have to
spend much of their time

getting from place to place.

[MOODY MUSIC]

Certain parties in the rest of the world

still think Canada consists
mainly of fur-bearing animals

and the people who trap them.

Of all the animals to choose from,

the Canadians picked the beaver
as their national animal,

a creature whose one
outstanding characteristic

is stubbornness.

Actually, the beaver was
chosen at a time when his pelt

fetched high prices in the world markets.

It's rather odd to think that if Canadians

were to choose a national
symbol on that basis today,

they'd be saddled with natural mink.

However, if the majority of
Canadians were once trappers,

most of them have gone
on to other pursuits.

[SWANKY MUSIC]

Some of them build pipelines.

Oil men are often optimistic.

A fellow named Jim Lowery
once paid a million dollars

for 160 acres of nothing.

The people who built this pipeline,

which stretches 235 miles

from Lesser Slave Lake to Edmonton,

began it without any assurance

that there was indeed
any oil at either end.

Fortunately, these men of great faith

have subsequently found the necessary oil

to put in their pipe.

[FEMALE SINGER VOCALIZING]

Canadians have a lot of space to fill.

They can't have cities everywhere.

This city's on wheels.

When nobody wants to live here anymore,

they just move the town away.

There are companies who
rent towns like this.

They'll rent you one
for about $5,000 a week

and deliver it anywhere in the world.

[FEMALE VOCALIZING CONTINUES]

On the other hand,

there are places in Canada which stay put

and everybody comes to visit.

The Indians called it the Great Thunderer.

It is their legend that
when Princess Lelawala

was sacrificed to Niagara,

she floated calmly over the
falls in a white birch canoe

dressed in soft doeskin,

with a garland of flowers in her hair.

It's an uncontested fact that in 1901,

Mrs. Annie Edison Taylor,

a plump widow with no previous experience,

was the first over the falls in a barrel.

The last to make the trip,
Mr. Boya of the Bronx,

bounced over in a rubber ball.

He was fined $113 for attracting a crowd

without a permit.

Blondin, P.T. Barnum's
great tightrope walker,

once carried his manager
across on his back,

it being alleged that this was
the first manager in history

who earned his 10%.

There's one event which
has a considerable effect

on the affairs and
appearance of the nation,

and that is the great Canadian winter.

[DOGS BARKING]

This is the capital of Canada.

During the winter, members of Parliament

come from the four corners of the nation

to keep warm with heavy debate.

[DOGS BARKING]

These are not members of Parliament.

These men are having the annual dog race.

The members of Parliament
are preparing to debate.

[BELL TOLLING]

Queen Victoria proclaimed
as capital of her dominion

a little place called Bytown.

It was just a straggling
collection of sawmills then,

on the Ottawa River.

It was considered to be safe from attack.

Unkind American journalists agreed.

Invaders, they said, would
get lost trying to find it.

[GAVEL BANGING]

- MAN: Mr. Speaker, a
message from His Excellency,

the Governor General.

- Mr. Speaker, His Excellency
the Governor General

wishes the immediate presence
of this honourable house

in the chamber of the honourable Senate.

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

[MELLOW MUSIC]

[MAN SINGING IN FRENCH]

- NARRATOR: Montreal
is the second biggest

French-speaking city in the world,

has the highest buildings
in the Commonwealth,

and can afford to spend
$10 million every winter

just clearing away snow.

[MELLOW MUSIC]

[MAN SPEAKING FRENCH]

[CROWD CHEERING]

[CHOIR SINGING IN FRENCH]

[MAN SPEAKING IN FRENCH]

[WOMAN SPEAKING IN FRENCH]

[MAN AND WOMAN SPEAKING IN FRENCH]

[SOFT MUSIC]

[CHILDREN SHOUTING]

[WHISTLE BLOWS]

[CHILDREN SHOUTING]

[INNOCENT MUSIC]

[SLEIGH BELLS RINGING]

Canadians can generally count
on the coming of spring.

That's the time of year
they pay their income tax

and go out and look for some more oil.

[MACHINERY WHIRRING]

The search for oil has come a
long way since Kootenai Brown

mixed molasses with kerosene,

served it up as cocktails
to the Stoney Indians,

and told them that if they
ever tasted anything like it,

to be sure and let him know.

Kootenai Brown had some success,

but others have done better.

[MACHINERY WHIRRING]

[THUNDER CRASHING]

[UPBEAT JAZZ]

Now, we've seen that
Canadians go to great lengths

to keep in touch with each other,

and this might seem as though they're

carrying things a bit far,

but somebody figured out that it costs

$300 a pole less to do it this way,

and Canadians don't like to
throw their money around.

[BIRDS SQUAWKING]

Most species of birds find Canada

an agreeable place to spend the summer.

There are even a few thousand
pelicans up in Saskatchewan.

Some Canadians count birds.

They know, for example,

that there are four and a
half million pintail ducks,

a million and a half Canada geese,

and 41 whooping cranes.

Some of the others they
aren't too sure about.

- BIRDER: 54, 55, 56, 57,
58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63...

64, 65, 66...

60.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,

10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19, 20...

51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60,

61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66...

60...

Oh. [SIGHING]

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9...

[LIVELY MUSIC]

- NARRATOR: According to Prince Philip,

Canadians are not as fit as they might be,

but some, like Marge and Kay Collins,

are clearly as fit as fiddles.

They're kite ski champions of
North America, in their class.

[LIVELY MUSIC]

They soar above the Thousand Islands

between Canada and the United States.

The Thousand Islands were
named by the Canadians.

Since there are more than
2,000 islands involved,

this is a typical example

of Canadian restraint and understatement.

[LIVELY MUSIC]

Some of the islands belong to Americans,

including, needless to say, the one below.

Artisans came with black walnut from Italy

and ankle-deep rugs from Persia.

If was just about finished
when the gentlemen who owned it

sent everybody home.

He had decided to stay in New York.

- OLD MAN: You know,
this land was hard to plow

and our horses wasn't too good,

especially when we got here that year

after driving 700 miles,

but our horses soon got
fat on this prairie grass.

- NARRATOR: When that old man was a kid

driving up to the Canadian west,

it was just a green grassy promise

of a golden treasure in the earth.

But the chance of a fat crop is enough

to draw settlers from all over Europe,

and of course men from the American West,

looking for brave new frontiers
to conquer, western-style.

- OLD MAN: There's one tall Texan

by the name of Kay Lowery,

and he didn't mind riding
his horse right into the bar

and demand a drink of whiskey
and then shooting the bar up.

But there were other fellas here.

There was a fella here, Wave Starley,

who came up from the south there

and was around here for quite a while...

[BELLS CLANGING]

- NARRATOR: Even the
Golden Boy of Manitoba

had his trouble settling in the west.

They were just finishing
him up in Paris in 1914

when the Germans bombed his foundry.

They put him on a ship,
which was immediately

commandeered to carry troops.

So the Golden Boy was stuffed in the hold

and went back and forth
across the Atlantic

for a couple of years.

They finally let him out and
hoisted him high over Winnipeg,

a five-ton symbol of youth and progress.

[LIVELY PIANO MUSIC]

The Canadian west is still
pretty well strung out,

but it's held together by legends.

- OLD MAN: They started to
shoot up around the fort.

That is, they were shooting
all around the fort

and raising Cain there.

And at that time they killed
an Indian and scalped him,

took seven scalps off one Indian.

Now, many people think when
they talk about a scalp,

it's the whole thing, but it's not.

It's only about the size
of about a 25-cent piece

with a strand of hair on it.

That's just about the size of it.

[LIVELY PIANO MUSIC CONTINUES]

[MELLOW JAZZ]

- NARRATOR: Canadians have a way of

making use of their wildlife.

Now, there haven't been any
live dinosaurs in Canada

for 60 million years,

but there's a thriving little
cottage industry in Calgary

that makes lady's jewellery
out of dinosaur bones.

They came from up here in a
place they call the Badlands.

The bone hunters have
worked it over so thoroughly

that you're not allowed
to pick up bones anymore,

unless you work for a museum.

[EERIE MUSIC]

[EAGLE CRYING]

[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]

[LIVELY MUSIC]

- ANNOUNCER: The CBC
International Service brings Canada

birthday greetings from many lands.

From Poland.

[WOMAN SPEAKING POLISH]

From France.

[MAN SPEAKING FRENCH]

From Germany.

[WOMAN SPEAKING GERMAN]

From Russia.

[MAN SPEAKING RUSSIAN]

And from London's East End.

- MAN: Happy birthday, Canada.

- NARRATOR: Canadian skiers
look after themselves.

There are the skis and the boots

and the 18 karat gold-plated
deluxe lightweight poles

and the Italian wide-lens
foam-back fog-resistant goggles,

the German White Whale
corduroy frontier pants

featuring double seat,

giant-sized combination hand
warmer and cigarette lighter,

wool-trim jacket with lynx paw hood,

nose warmers in assorted colours,

lightweight baby carrier
with blue dot contour seat,

all for only $485.

And for the apres-ski,

the long-haired Himalayan
Austrian goat boot at $52.50.

[UPBEAT MUSIC]

And then there's the west coast.

If and when the sun shines,
it's truly the pot of gold.

[UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES]

It's watched over by
Captain George Vancouver,

who nearly fell off a few years ago,

but is again glued on tight.

Canadians are a hospitable bunch.

They provided space for an
Australian and an Englishman

to run the miracle mile.

And each football team allows 15 Americans

to come and play for them.

[CHEERFUL MUSIC]

It has been said that the west coast

is more British than the British,

but it is also a land of
exceptional exceptions.

There's nothing British
about Mr. Nick Kogas.

"I think I will build a
Greek island in Canada,"

Nick Kogas said one day.

And 18 years later,

he proved that all things are possible

if you go far enough west.

[CHEERFUL MUSIC CONTINUES]

Some think that all persons

living in the west coast are crazy,

but this doesn't bother
people in the west coast.

They're too busy enjoying it.

[DOG BARKING]

[BOAT HORNS HONKING]

[FLOCK OF BIRDS]

[UPBEAT MUSIC]

It's been said that Canada is the oldest

underdeveloped country in the world.

That she is the size of China
with the population of Iran,

that she has the cultural
development of Afghanistan,

the economic structure of the Congo,

and the climate of Siberia.

But the people who say
these things are Canadians.

The rest of the world seems to like her.

She's generally good-natured.

And from what we've
been able to see of her,

she looks just fine.

[YODELLING MUSIC]