This is part two of the film which inspired the multi-screen sequences in the original Thomas Crown Affair.
The 18 minute, dialogue-free short debuted in April 1967 as part of the Expo 67, celebrating Canada's Centenary.
The film was projected onto a huge screen - around twenty meters wide and ten meters high.
It's director, Christopher Chapman won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Subject in 1968.
He was the first Canadian to win an Oscar outside the National Film Board.
According to Chapman, Steve McQueen attended one of the first private screenings of A Place To Stand;
He was one of the few people in Hollywood who seemed to understand it in its real sense, not just as a gimmick. He wanted to film Le Mans in multi-dynamic image, and I told Steve that he was going about it the wrong way.
It was much too big a film, with too many writers; it wouldn't work that way. We would end up destroying what both he and I felt. He was very disappointed, but he agreed. I liked him very much as a person.
Norman Jewison wanted me to work with him when I was down in Hollywood...but I wasn't able to.
I saw Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair about 10 years later, and I was quite interested with the way multi-dynamic image had been used. It showed signs of working in the way it could be used more effectively.
