CBC employee Paul Gorbould has a great posting on his personal blog about the sale last week of props and items from the now-closed CBC design department.
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.
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Is the public able to purchase design departmetn items? And how?
Thanks for the mention, Tod! The link is here, if anyone is interested.
Wish I had bought that angel…
Request for info seconded, if it isn’t too late…?
I believe the sale is still going on, but it doesn’t appear to be open to the public. Heck, they didn’t even announce it to CBC employees… I just found out by word of mouth and wandered down. And I see Valpy did a piece on it in the Globe Saturday. I did get a picture of the sold coffin, too
Thanks for pointing it out, Paul & Tod!
The nice man said “yeah, we’re closing at the end of the month.”
To which I replied “just like Sam The Record Man.”
Then he said “it’s not open to the public.”
And I said “I have to be frank with you. I am a member of the public.”
Which received a “well, you’re here now …”
Thanks for the memory!
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Well, I’d have just donated it to the Ottawa Broadcast Centre for them to squirrel away just in case anyway, right?
Wish I could’ve stuck around town for that sale…
The coffin! I rented that coffin for a promotional stunt for the film Blood and Donuts. This was during the film festival, a courier and I had to lug it to and from the CBC to the Sutton Place Hotel and then to CITY TV for the Festival Schmooze Party.
It wasn’t that heavy but we did get a few odd stares as we hauled a coffin through the hallways of the Sutton Place Hotel.