| Posted by nel58 |
4/30/2006 4:40 AM | remove |
Are you becoming a ladder freak too?
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| Posted by TaP |
4/30/2006 4:44 AM | remove |
oui oui
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| Posted by maZe |
4/30/2006 4:58 AM | remove |
This was the ladder to go up to the fly rails. Ropes counter weights for the fly rails would have been attached to the things you see on the wall.
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| Posted by TaP |
4/30/2006 5:12 AM | remove |
yeah, the fly counterweights are still there , but slightly damaged
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| Posted by SPEK Photo |
5/1/2006 1:50 PM | remove |
This used to lead over the scene
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
5/1/2006 1:51 PM | remove |
this was montreals only "atmospheric" theatre!
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
5/1/2006 6:02 PM | remove |
In the 70's there was a movie played here called "Earthquake" (I believe) and it was playing in Sensuround or soemthing like that. Anyway the publicity at the time said that you could feel the earthquakes when you walked by the theatre. There was a kind of rumbling buzz but hardly what they said.
Another example off some panic in Hollywood trying to find a way to keep people in theatres, lol
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
5/1/2006 7:03 PM | remove |
well atmospheric is the architectural style from when it was live stage, there was no need for audio re inforcement
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
5/2/2006 12:03 AM | remove |
then I am not sure I know what you mean as Montreal was a huge "Vaudeville" town and there were tons of "live" Theatres.
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| Posted by maZe |
5/2/2006 1:01 AM | remove |
In the 1920's and 1930's, there was 2 types of theatre builts in Montreal. Some specifically built for Vaudeville (live theatre), some specifically built for movies. Vaudeville had bigger stages, flyrails and a green room and artists' dressing rooms. Movies had smaller stage, usually simply backed by a brick wall, with a very limited flyrail section, usually consisting of 3 or 4 flyrails. Both had orchestra pits as the silent movies were played with orchestra and so were most of the vaudeville shows. Original dressing rooms are usually under the stage and are now mostly abandonned or used for storage. St-Denis for example was built for Vaudeville (and the original dressing rooms are still in used), while the Loews (now Club Mainfield) was built as a movie theatre. Most Theatre actually switched from movies to vaudeville back to movies through their existence. That explains why lots of the flyrails sections of old vaudeville theatres were eventually removed in the 1970's because not in used anymore and because the big theatres were divided in smaller movie theatres. Like the Palace, de Loews and so many others.
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| Posted by maZe |
5/2/2006 1:05 AM | remove |
Montreal famous Cabaret artist : Lili St-Cyr, Montreal famous Vaudeville : Olivier Guimont, La poune (Rose Ouellette), Gilles Latulippe, Juliette Belliveau, Paul Desmarteaux, etc.
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| Posted by maZe |
5/2/2006 1:07 AM | remove |
Classic Vaudeville Theatre with dressing rooms and green room under the stage with one washroom for everyone : http://pattypatwebdesign.net/varietes/tdv.html
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
5/2/2006 2:47 AM | remove |
WC Fields, George Burns, The Marx Brothers a re just a few of the names that came in for Vaudeville. Can you imagine it in the 20's? There was no legal booze in the US for like 10 years! Welcome to Sin City Canada! And it was like that until Drapeau started "cleaning" it up in the 50's. My mom worked downtown most of her life and she still says there was never as much going on in Montreal as there was in the 50's!
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
5/2/2006 12:11 PM | remove |
yes drapeau cleared out the chip wagons, the newspaper boxes and even closed streets in hochelaga to prevent the world from seeing that neighborhood during the olympics, and malgre that i like the guy.
back to the atmospheric theatre design, the seville had almos perfect acoustics, i read a very interesting article on it. Also maze you might be interested, i found my great grandfathers stuff, he was a piano player at the loews for silent movies
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| Posted by maZe |
5/2/2006 1:19 PM | remove |
Hoooo.... what do I need to do to see that stuff Nostra??? I'm willing to do A LOT! :) lol
Also, one thing to look for in old theatre, if you ever find the original firecurtain (made of Asbestos), check the front to find the theatre's designer name - usually Emmanuel Briffa in Montreal and most of the best old 1920's-1950's theatres in North America. And check the back as most stars from the 1920's to 1940's signed the back of those big curtains. I've seen many famous people :Ethel Barrymore (Drew's grandmother) and many many others. :)
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| Posted by nel58 |
5/2/2006 2:01 PM | remove |
Wow nostra...this is amazing..was he composing-improvising or he worked with partitions ?
If you have music sheets,I'd be so thrilled to have a look and try them!
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
5/2/2006 2:08 PM | remove |
well basically i found an article from the paper in halifax england announcing he was leaving the theatre there for the loews in montreal he was offered the job while he was still in england!
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| Posted by maZe |
5/2/2006 2:55 PM | remove |
Wow! Back in the days of silent movies, musicians rarely worked with partitions. They followed the leader of the band, which was watching the movie from the orchestra pit. That's why some theatres were better than other - the musicians could made the movie experience amazing or make it a real disaster depending on their skills :)
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
5/2/2006 3:27 PM | remove |
I saw a 1927 restored film, "Napopleon" at Place des Arts in the early 80's. It had a full symphony led by Carmine Coppola (Francis Ford's father). We sat in the front row which I would normally not like at a movie but here we could really see the orchestra and film at the same time or close to it. Was incredible.
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
5/2/2006 3:34 PM | remove |
And I still think Charlie Chaplin was the best filmmaker of all time. He wrote, acted, directed, produced, and wrote the music for all his films. And he was able to transcend cultures and do stuff that resonated with people eveywhere.
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| Posted by SPEK Photo |
5/4/2006 2:33 AM | remove |
Please note that the ladder is bolted on a stone wall. The wall is older than the theater. Poured concrete fully replaced stone construction by 1925. The wall could be the one from an older construction on the same site.
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