the first ad for Montreal's metro system
This was the first ad campaign for the Montreal Metro.
According to the Youtube post, it was made in 1976 at Atwater Metro Station.
Notice that the first notes of the song are the same notes that (some of) the trains make when starting to move out of the station! Check out the dancers too.
Excellent.
(Thanks to Kathleen for emailing me this link!)
According to the Youtube post, it was made in 1976 at Atwater Metro Station.
Notice that the first notes of the song are the same notes that (some of) the trains make when starting to move out of the station! Check out the dancers too.
Excellent.
(Thanks to Kathleen for emailing me this link!)
posted by tylr at 11:27 p.m.
3 Comments:
I like this. Really shows what decade it's from. I like the dancers, and the "Brady-Bunch" esque scene at the end...back from an era when bus-drivers wore special caps (they were made optional and then phased out in the 80's)
As for "those notes"...that include a fourth and a fifth (or is it the other way round)....the trains that do that, the newer "MR-73s", were very new then. And the notes are caused by chopper thyristors, which regulate the flow to the motors, so that the train doesn't "jackrabbit" out of the station. And the particular notes are uniquely montreal, but some other systems have their own "musical metros." On a side-note (cue rimshot), back when Telefauna did "The Kettle Song" I imagined the opening notes as reminding me of a Metro starting up.
Peace out,
Sebastian AKA Ra'akone
fantastic.
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