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Wilson, Walter - Interview

Item number (ISN):

62703

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1962-04-06

Item number (ISN):

62703

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

SHAW, Grace Lydiatt

Accession:

1987-0416

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1962-04-06

Production company:

Grace Lydiatt Shaw (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Grace Lydiatt Shaw

Description:

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In this interview with Grace Lydiatt Shaw, Walter Wilson describes his career in the theatre and movie businesses. Wilson describes the Canadian movie company for which he worked and Famous Players. The movie prices of 1910 and 1911 are remembered. So are the first two talkies to come to Winnipeg: MOTHER KNOWS BEST in 1923 and THE SINGING FOOL with Al Jolson in 1925. The effects and music of the movies are remembered. Wilson describes the early movie houses in Winnipeg. He worked for Capitol for almost 30 years, until 1952. In the second half of the interview however, Wilson concentrates largely on the theatre. The Allen Players and the Dominion Theatre are described, are the Walker Theatre, the female impersonators of the day and the World War One concert party, the Dumbells. Wilson himself built the Garrick Theatre in 1922. In the last part of the interview Wilson describes the contests he held at the Capitol Theatre in the middle 1920s and his audiences at the Lyceum during the Depression. Members of the audience firing revolvers, a fire, a robbery on December 10th, 1931, drinking, vandalism and members of the audience becoming ill complete his details of that period.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. This interview constitutes research for the series CANADIAN THEATRE : FACT AND FANCY.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

67656

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1987-0416/193
1987-0416/194

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

ACETATE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

669115

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

62703-1987-0416-193.WAV
62703-1987-0416-194.WAV

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1987-0416/193
1987-0416/194

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

669116

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

62703-1987-0416-193.MP3
62703-1987-0416-194.MP3

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

1987-0416/193
1987-0416/194

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

172838

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C09468

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

1987-0416/191
1987-0416/192
1987-0416/193
1987-0416/194
1987-0416/195

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 25997

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Under copyright until 2013.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner is probably Grace Lydiatt Shaw.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of donorCBC Radio owns copyright on some of this material.

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