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Post by Hodge on Mar 14, 2015 1:30:45 GMT
You might mention that I corresponded with the Royal Ontario Museum last October. My suggestion was forwarded to the Exhibitions Department, but I didn't hear anything further. Here is the text of my inquiry: Thanks. Good thinking. I also want to get viewership stats from the US, UK, France and Australia to bolster the international following argument. If anyone on the board in those countries or any other country would be willing to find out that information for me I would be very grateful. You can post it in this thread. I believe the French ratings for S7 are on Twitter somewhere. I could try looking through. |
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Post by lovemondays on Mar 14, 2015 1:32:27 GMT
When we started this project, this was the map I was thinking of, but perhaps with better pictorial representations of the buildings on it like an amusement park map.  That type of map would work beautifully for a replication of locations mentioned in Murdoch's time. With filming locations as tourist destinations we are looking at a map that is about 180 miles east to west and 70 miles north - south. |
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Post by snacky on Mar 14, 2015 1:33:05 GMT
Thanks. Good thinking. I also want to get viewership stats from the US, UK, France and Australia to bolster the international following argument. If anyone on the board in those countries or any other country would be willing to find out that information for me I would be very grateful. You can post it in this thread. I believe the French ratings for S7 are on Twitter somewhere. I could try looking through. This is actually a nice service TV-Eh could be providing audiences - international ratings for Canadian-produced TV...  |
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Post by snacky on Mar 14, 2015 1:35:03 GMT
When we started this project, this was the map I was thinking of, but perhaps with better pictorial representations of the buildings on it like an amusement park map. That type of map would work beautifully for a replication of locations mentioned in Murdoch's time. With filming locations as tourist destinations we are looking at a map that is about 180 miles east to west and 70 miles north - south. Yes - those two ideas keep getting entangled. I do believe it should be two separate maps. One should be historically immersive - "as if" William's time. Of course, there might be an issue if there were some major topological changes during William's time.  |
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Post by lovemondays on Mar 14, 2015 1:44:31 GMT
That type of map would work beautifully for a replication of locations mentioned in Murdoch's time. With filming locations as tourist destinations we are looking at a map that is about 180 miles east to west and 70 miles north - south. Yes - those two ideas keep getting entangled. I do believe it should be two separate maps. One should be historically immersive - "as if" William's time. Of course, there might be an issue if there were some major topological changes during William's time. I believe Toronto's shoreline extends much further south that it did in 1902.  |
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Post by lizmc on Mar 14, 2015 1:46:49 GMT
Shaftsbury would certainly have the international figures, and you would have to have Shaftsbury's involvement, or at least acknowledgement, for copyright and intellectual property reasons.
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Post by snacky on Mar 14, 2015 1:50:07 GMT
I always think it's funny that Patrick McGoohan basically only had to say "I am not a number, I'm a free man" to guarantee the immortality of a handful of episodes of The Prisoner, no matter how much those episodes sucked, because he managed to condense the psychological/political issues of an era (the entire century?) into that one line. I wonder if MM is going to crank out such a line. (No, it's not "Indeed."  ) And the next parlor trick is: would such a line separate Canadian culture from the US? Or is our confrontation with modernity at the turn of the 20th century the same? |
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Post by lovemondays on Mar 14, 2015 1:52:04 GMT
Shaftsbury would certainly have the international figures, and you would have to have Shaftsbury's involvement, or at least acknowledgement, for copyright and intellectual property reasons. Cheers That point is key if I am to proceed with my grand vision. |
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Post by lizmc on Mar 14, 2015 1:57:36 GMT
And the next parlor trick is: would such a line separate Canadian culture from the US? Or is our confrontation with modernity at the turn of the 20th century the same? I think you would find, Snacky, that there was a profound difference between Canadian and US culture, especially at the turn of the 20th century. Canadians felt quite threatened by the US and our origins are very different....don't forget, Canada was legislated into existence, because of the American threat.....we've never had a revolution.....a couple of rebellions which fizzled out, but no revolutions....
Cheers
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Post by Fallenbelle on Mar 14, 2015 2:33:59 GMT
I'm sure you would have several tour guides. You and hubby could even come on the boat tour!!  I'm game for leading a pub crawl....... We like boats...and we like adult beverages even more! |
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Post by snacky on Mar 14, 2015 2:38:17 GMT
And the next parlor trick is: would such a line separate Canadian culture from the US? Or is our confrontation with modernity at the turn of the 20th century the same? I think you would find, Snacky, that there was a profound difference between Canadian and US culture, especially at the turn of the 20th century. Canadians felt quite threatened by the US and our origins are very different....don't forget, Canada was legislated into existence, because of the American threat.....we've never had a revolution.....a couple of rebellions which fizzled out, but no revolutions....
Cheers
I'm not surprised at all, and I'm eager to see this spelled out in MM.  |
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