''Transitions'' is the first full-colour 3D

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film, created for the Canada Pavilion at

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, co-directed by Colin Low and Tony Ianzelo and produced by the

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. It was built upon ''We Are Born of Stars'' created for

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in Tskuba, Japan, which used

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. The film is also notable for the first use of

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Production

Canadian National, the main sponsor of the Canada Pavilion, asked the NFB to produce a film about transportation in Canada, in keeping with the fair's theme “Transportation and Communications”. The film's computer animation sequence was produced by the Centre d'animatique unit of the NFB's French animation studio, credited to

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, shortly before he left the NFB to found Softimage.

Projection

''Transitions'' was projected on a screen at the pavilion's CN IMAX Theatre, to over 1.75 million people, during a six-month run.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Transitions (Film) 1986 3D films 1986 short documentary films 1986 films 3D short films Canadian 3D films Canadian National Railway Documentary films about transport Expo 86 Films directed by Colin Low (filmmaker) Films directed by Tony Ianzelo IMAX short films National Film Board of Canada documentaries Canadian short documentary films Transport in Canada World's fair films Films scored by Eldon Rathburn IMAX documentary films National Film Board of Canada short films 3D documentary films 1980s English-language films 1980s Canadian films English-language short documentary films

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