My husband noticed a while back that the plaque on the old Ouimetoscope building had disappeared. A few days later he noticed that a historic placard of sorts, commemorating the Ouimetoscope was placed in the neighbourhood. Yesterday, he noticed that the Ouimetoscope building is being converted into condos, keeping the historic name.
Hmm. Good, I guess. If you can't turn it back into a theatre.
I've written a lot about Montreal in the Nickelodeon era.. and Threshold Girl is available at www.tighsolas.ca/page10.pdf.pdf
Threshold Girl tells the story of Flora Nicholson in 1911 as she attends Macdonald Teaching College. And it has public domain pictures from the Delineator Magazines of the era.
I've decided to do the follow up about her sister Edith and call it The Diary of a Confirmed Spinster. It's here in drafty form.. www.tighsolas.ca/page11.pdf.pdf
It's kind of a storyboard thing...Recently, I saw (read) an NFB digital story about a town closing down in Canada, called Welcome to... ah.. Pinpoint and thought it lovely. It's award winning.
So I decided to describe Edith's Story, which is a mix of fiction and fact, more visually. I'm not using any film, or streaming video or whatever, but this story is about the film era and I am going to work hard to capture that flavour.
It's a work in progress.
