Sold
The CBC Design Department is done. Sold out. Sold off. Sold to Tony, whoever that is.
They didn’t advertise it, but now that the employees have been shown the door, there’s a sale going on down there. All the leftover props that nobody claimed are being sold off, flea-market style.
Not that there’s a lot left. First dibs went to in-house productions (Air Farce, Mercer, Kids), and rumour had it that a movie company called Shaftesbury Productions (Robber Bride, ReGenesis) picked it over too. Then the jetsam went to auction - the good stuff has yellow tags of “Hold” or “Sold” (many say “Gross”, which I assume is a buyer or TV production - Paul, maybe? - rather than a sign of someone’s disgust.) Some of it is tagged for individual purchasers, like Tony’s angel, above. As Ouimet said, it’s going to be one hell of a garage sale.
The sale started Monday, so don’t count on finding any great treasures by now. But there’s lots of interesting junk left over, from 70s chairs and old typewriters to portraits and vases and lamps.
For a while, I foolishly held out hope that the government, a museum, benefactor or big movie company would buy the whole collection and keep it together. Wishful thinking. And that’s just the stuff… if only the talented people could have been kept together somehow.
Alas. As the dust settles, here’s what’s left of the country’s greatest collection of TV production and design materials:
Posted by: Paul Gorbould | 06-15-2007 | 12:06 PM
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These pictures are just so sad. Nuthin makes you feel blue like an angel with a “sold” sign on her head…. or a container of gently-used 70s lamps labelled “free”. It’s like the Land of Forgotten Toys. Ugh.
Damn shame…
Shame.
Although that angel looks disturbingly like the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who. Creeepy.
Shhhh, don’t ruin it for me! I only got to start watching DW series 3 tonight!
I’d be willing to bet that ‘Tony’ is Tony Burman, a major honcho at CBC. I’d be curious as to how little Tony paid for it.
Thanks for the tip, Paul!
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No Guff: Perhaps it was a going away present?
Allan: You’re very welcome! Glad they let you in - were you able to buy anything fun?
what little was left was beginning to look like Goodwill
the Grundig radios had no cords
the LC475 used to be worth a thousand dollars
the coffins were eerie
the wooden wheelchair was strangely touching and powerful
the angel was nowhere in sight
the merry-go-round horse needs touch up
some cool retro furniture already taken
I now have a nice jewelry case with CBC written on the bottom
and a couple of decks of cards with horse silhouettes on them
I’ll have to learn some tricks.