Just stumbled across this today. Sorry if it is a duplicate. I did a search but didn't find this before.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2007/10/28/4612542-ap.html
According to this news article, Disney funded a video for the American government to showcase the natural wonders and beauties of the USA to help increase tourism. However, the footage it uses is not all American. Specifically, it quotes:
About four minutes into the seven-minute production, viewers are treated to the impressive sight and sound of water roaring over Niagara Falls before the screen shifts to the Lincoln Memorial.
In showing the natural wonder, Disney's filmmakers, however, chose the Horseshoe Falls, the only one of Niagara's three waterfalls to lie on the Canadian side of the border separating western New York state from southern Ontario province.
Making matters worse, a visitor to the U.S. would not even be able to get the same view of the falls in the video because the scene was shot from a vantage point in Canada, according to Paul Gromosiak, a Niagara Falls, N.Y., historian and author.
Also, he said the video leaves out the two cascades that actually are on U.S. territory, the American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls.
"This is not the United States, this is 100 per cent Canada, shot from the Canadian side. This is an insult," Gromosiak said after reviewing the video at the request of The Associated Press.
This just floors me. Didn't Disney just release a new video in the Canada pavillion? So, they should be aware of what is Canadian footage and what is American footage.
Has anyone seen the film? And is it really as bad as this news article is portraying?
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2007/10/28/4612542-ap.html
According to this news article, Disney funded a video for the American government to showcase the natural wonders and beauties of the USA to help increase tourism. However, the footage it uses is not all American. Specifically, it quotes:
About four minutes into the seven-minute production, viewers are treated to the impressive sight and sound of water roaring over Niagara Falls before the screen shifts to the Lincoln Memorial.
In showing the natural wonder, Disney's filmmakers, however, chose the Horseshoe Falls, the only one of Niagara's three waterfalls to lie on the Canadian side of the border separating western New York state from southern Ontario province.
Making matters worse, a visitor to the U.S. would not even be able to get the same view of the falls in the video because the scene was shot from a vantage point in Canada, according to Paul Gromosiak, a Niagara Falls, N.Y., historian and author.
Also, he said the video leaves out the two cascades that actually are on U.S. territory, the American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls.
"This is not the United States, this is 100 per cent Canada, shot from the Canadian side. This is an insult," Gromosiak said after reviewing the video at the request of The Associated Press.
This just floors me. Didn't Disney just release a new video in the Canada pavillion? So, they should be aware of what is Canadian footage and what is American footage.
Has anyone seen the film? And is it really as bad as this news article is portraying?
