| Legend Quest - 1x01 - Ark of the Covenant and Mayan Talking Cross |
| Legend Quest - 1x02 - Excalibur and the Lost Cintamani Stone |
| Legend Quest - 1x03 - Holy Lance and The Incan Golden Sun Disc |
| Legend Quest - 1x04 - Staff of Moses and the Stone of Destiny |
| Legend Quest - 1x05 - Merlins Magical Treasures and King Solomons Ring |
| Legend Quest - 1x06 - The Holy Grail |
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Video Update - 29 February 2012
Friday, 24 February 2012
Grandma's Boy Ghost Sign
HERITAGE
‘Ghost sign' for 1922 movie reappears at
Granville-Robson
BY JOHN MACKIE
(Article from The Vancouver
Ninety years after it was covered up by a
building, a "ghost sign" for a 1922 movie has reappeared at Granville
and Robson.
The sign promotes the Harold Lloyd comedy Grandma's
Boy, which played at the Capitol theatre Oct. 2-7, 1922.
The sign is painted onto the north wall of the
Power block at 817 Granville, across the street from where the Capitol opened
in 1921. Hence the sign includes a red circle reading "Capitol over
there," and features a wonderful disembodied hand with a finger pointing
across the street.
The sign reappeared during the demolition of
the three-storey Farmer building at 801 Granville. The Farmer building was
constructed in 1922, so the Lloyd
sign would have been covered up almost immediately after it was painted, and
hidden for nine decades.
Signs like this are called ghost signs, because
of their ghostly faded beauty and/or because they advertise long-dead
businesses.
Several ghost signs have cropped up in recent
years in Vancouver ,
including a lovely ad for Shelly's Bakery on Victoria Drive and a bunch of long-hidden
painted signs on the Wood-ward's building. Part of an old painted sign for the
Pantages theatre showed up on the side of the Regent Hotel when the 1907-08 theatre
was being torn down.
Still, heritage expert John Atkin says he's
never seen a painted sign for a movie, which would have had a short shelf life.
"You can certainly see movie posters and
billboards [in old photos], but not [signs] painted on the wall," he said.
"I think the management of the theatre
took advantage of the brief period when a building [on the corner] was
demolished and before construction started on the new one."
Lloyd is largely forgotten today, but he was
one of the giants of the silent screen, a comic genius whose popularity once
rivalled Charlie Chaplin. He made 205 films between 1913 and 1947, including 40
short films in 1919 alone.
By 1922 he was doing longer features such as
the 60-minute Grandma's Boy, which an ad in the Oct. 1, 1922, Vancouver Sun called his "first
five-reel comedy." It played the Capitol for only a week before moving to
the Dominion for a week and then leaving town. A painted sign would have cost the
owner of the Capitol much more than hanging a poster, but would have grabbed
attention away from competition like the Tom Mix movie The Big Town Round-Up that
was showing at the Rex, or the Cecil B. DeMille movie Manslaughter at the
Dominion.
The full glory of the painted ad for Grandma's
Boy may be unveiled over the next few days as the building that covered it up
comes down, brick by brick. But it won't be visible long, because the building
it's on is also coming down, save for the facade.
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Video Update - 21 February 2012
| 2012 Brit Awards |
| Babylon 5 - 5x09 - In the Kingdom of the Blind |
| Bees, Butterflies And Blooms - 1 of 3 - Villages, Farms & Countryside (BBC-2012) |
| Bees, Butterflies And Blooms - 2 of 3 - Towns, Gardens And Britain In Bloom (BBC-2012) |
| Global National News - 20120221 |
Saturday, 18 February 2012
Video Update - 17 February 2012
| Battle for Tripoli - 20110823(1314-1545) |
| Hurricane Irene - 20110827 CNN(2301-2400PT) |
| Hurricane Irene - 20110828 CNN(0000-0056PT) |
| Hurricane Irene - 20110828 CNN(0256-0456PT) |
| Hurricane Irene - 20110828 CNN(0456-0557PT) |
| Sanctions on Syria - 20110823(2002-2032) |
| US East Coast Earthquake - 20110823CNN (1314-1545) |
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Video Update - 15 February 2012
| Global National News - 20120206 |
| Global National News - 20120207 |
| Global National News - 20120208 |
| Global National News - 20120209 |
| Global National News - 20120211 |
| Global National News - 20120212 |
| Global National News - 20120213 |
| Global National News - 20120214 |
Sunday, 5 February 2012
Video Update - 4 February 2012
| Blakes 7 - 2x03 - Weapon |
| Blakes 7 - 4x02 - Power |
| Desert Storm News Footage |
| Doctor Who - The Dominators Part 2 |
| Doctor Who - The Dominators Part 3 |
| Doctor Who - The Dominators Part 4 |
| Space 1999 - Mark of Archanon |
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Video Update - 3 February 2012
| Adv of Robin Hood - Blackmail |
| Alexandria Quinn |
| Angela Cartwright on Entertainment Tonight |
| Beethoven's 10th Symphony - 1st Playing |
| Bosnian War(V) |
| Doctor Who - Nightmare of Eden |
| Doctor Who - Seeds of Doom Ep 1 |
| Doctor Who - Seeds of Doom Ep 2 |
| Doctor Who - Seeds of Doom Ep 3 |
| Doctor Who - Seeds of Doom Ep 4 |
| Elephant Boy - 1x08 - Year of the Birds |
| Forest Rangers |
| Great Castles of Europe - Neuschwanstein |
| Lenin's Body |
| Mike MacDonald's Politically Correct Canadian Christmas |
| Plymouth |
| Space Shuttle - 7 Dec 1998 |
| Ursus Son of Hercules in Valley of the Lions |
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