Word: labyrinth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most film makers have used Expo's theme-"Man and His World"-to sanctify a marriage of convenience between formidable technique and flaccid story. But at the Labyrinth pavilion the theme is handled by Canada's prize winning National Film Board with solemnity and skill. In the vaulted chambers of a windowless, five-story building, the viewer follows a restatement of the Greek myth of Theseus, who entered a labyrinth on the island of Crete to slay the monstrous Minotaur. In the pavilion the labyrinth is evoked by a series of eerie corridors and chambers, including one auditorium...
...jungle, spear in hand, searching the waters for a crocodile. Around him the night seethes ominously. When at last he kills his quarry, the screens abruptly fill with white-eyed death masks that seem, for once, as terrifying to the viewer as they must be to the native. Labyrinth's narration is sometimes painfully portentous: "The hardest place to look is inside yourself, but that is where you will find the beast. . ." But for the most part it is a sonic boon, admirably understating Labyrinth's stunning visual display...
...move was to recruit two veteran aviation consultants: Thomas Wolfe, 65, a onetime vice president of both Western and Pan American, who is now Air California's chairman, and Hull, 66, onetime president of Lockheed Aircraft Service. With their guidance, the group steered its way safely through the labyrinth of state and federal approvals to operate. They managed to raise $5,300,000 amid last year's tight-money squeeze, including a $2,500,000 public stock offering, which was largely snapped up by enthusiastic local residents...
...motion-picture presentation to supplement its static sights, and it has been estimated that a cinema addict could spend every minute of Expo's 183 days at a screen and still not see every frame available. One of the most sensational flicks: the mad, mad show at the Labyrinth, a five-story pavilion built by the National Film Board of Canada. The feature is prosaically called "The Story of Man," but during the 45-minute film the viewers move from chamber to chamber, eye-witnessing a re-creation of the Greeks' Minotaur myth. At times, members...
...perceive the world as other men do. An eye illness made him blind ten years ago; moreover, his "stories" are not fiction but something more akin to thought patterns. Long ago, he began storing his visions in what he calls the "unstable world of the mind, an indefatigable labyrinth, a chaos, a dream." And out of this darkness, from total recall, flash his scintillas of light...