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Record W7161685198 · doi:10.3138/cjfms-2025-0021

“Prospectors With Vision”: Montreal and Crawley Films’ <i>Expo 67</i> (1965)

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Anthony Kinik

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Film and Media Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCinema and Media Studies
Canadian institutionsBrock University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCorporationFocus (optics)Government (linguistics)

Abstract

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This essay examines the relationship of Crawley Films to Expo 67 and its organizing committee, the Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition. Its focus is on one title in particular, Expo 67 (René Bonnière, 1965), which was released two years before Expo 67 opened, and was specifically designed to entice investors and exhibitors into seizing upon the opportunities created by the exhibition. This idiosyncratic short, sponsored by the Traders Finance Corporation of Toronto, is a striking example of how specialists in industrial films, such as Crawley Films, made significant contributions to how Montreal was represented and understood during this period, as well as how such films sometimes had a direct bearing on the city’s dramatic redevelopment.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.265
Threshold uncertainty score0.533

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0080.007
Scholarly communication0.0080.004
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.202 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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