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commanderteddog today. We went to the dream factory, the place where Canadian childhoods were forged.
Yes, TV Ontario! Home of "Read All About It" and "Magic Shadows" and "Cucumber" and "Report Canada" and "Fables of the Green Forest" and "The Polka Dot Door" and "Prisoners of Gravity" and, in short, all good things fondly remembered by any right-thinking Canadian between the ages of 25 and 45. TVO introduced me to Flash Gordon serials and Doctor Who and televisions shows about fish and ants.
The future is now! (7:30 in Newfoundland)
Magic doors!
On this very street, scenes from Second Nature (the nature show that was inevitably pirated by Prisoners of Gravity) were filmed. They say that, on dark nights, one can still hear Enrico Gruen's moustache flapping in the wind.
We got chased away by a secretary. :( And went for a walk.
"Hey, buddy! You can't park that thing here!" It looks like a 1974 Winnebago Chieftan.
More relics of Empire.
The lion...
...and the unicorn.
Note the royal insignia. It's not "Elizabeth Regina," it's "Edward Rex." Edward VIII, in fact, who did not reign long enough to be crowned.
The post office was built on the ruins of Montgomery's Tavern, site of a bit of a brawl back in the unpleasantness of 1837, before Pax Britannica settled once more over the land, like a giant blanket smelling strongly of tea, marmalade and smallpox.
LUNCH!
And that is all.
commanderteddog today. We went to the dream factory, the place where Canadian childhoods were forged.Yes, TV Ontario! Home of "Read All About It" and "Magic Shadows" and "Cucumber" and "Report Canada" and "Fables of the Green Forest" and "The Polka Dot Door" and "Prisoners of Gravity" and, in short, all good things fondly remembered by any right-thinking Canadian between the ages of 25 and 45. TVO introduced me to Flash Gordon serials and Doctor Who and televisions shows about fish and ants.
The future is now! (7:30 in Newfoundland)
Magic doors!
On this very street, scenes from Second Nature (the nature show that was inevitably pirated by Prisoners of Gravity) were filmed. They say that, on dark nights, one can still hear Enrico Gruen's moustache flapping in the wind.
We got chased away by a secretary. :( And went for a walk.
"Hey, buddy! You can't park that thing here!" It looks like a 1974 Winnebago Chieftan.
More relics of Empire.
The lion...
...and the unicorn.
Note the royal insignia. It's not "Elizabeth Regina," it's "Edward Rex." Edward VIII, in fact, who did not reign long enough to be crowned.
The post office was built on the ruins of Montgomery's Tavern, site of a bit of a brawl back in the unpleasantness of 1837, before Pax Britannica settled once more over the land, like a giant blanket smelling strongly of tea, marmalade and smallpox.
LUNCH!
And that is all.
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Date: 2008-12-12 01:40 pm (UTC)Our school showed episodes of the home-grown series Parlez-Moi to help learn French from a very dim and sad hobo clown named Sol.
Magic Shadows was a favourite every day, to see a movie chopped up into pieces, each introduced by Uncle Elwy and a movie serial episode. The opening animated credits were fun and quirky to watch:
Then there were the various British import shows they rented for viewing: Doctor Who serials (introduced by Judy Merril no less!), and fun BBC science shows like Don't Ask Me featuring Magnus Pike as one of the panelists (who reprised his role as eccentric scientist in Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me with Science" music video).
I also liked this kid's show, Vision On, that had these quirky little animations interspersing fun art projects with Tony Hart and others.
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