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Amusement Park (John Porter, 1978/79, super 8, colour, 6 minutes, silent)

A Porter's Condensed Ritual (time-lapse/pixilation).

A document of different thrill rides at Toronto's historic, annual Canadian National Exhibition, all shot at night, at one frame per second, using one-second time exposures.

Using two rolls of film shot in two consecutive years, the first roll consists of close-ups of each ride, edited in-camera.
The second roll consists of a single, wide-angle long-shot of the entire "Midway" of rides, seen from the top of the historic observation tower which has since been demolished.
This scene was shot continuously over an 8 hour period beginning before dusk, increasing the time exposures as the daylight lessened and even after dark, ending in an almost white-out of the night scene created by 2-minute exposures on each frame.

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