A Gift To Last
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The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An elderly man remembers his childhood Christmases around the turn of the century. His memories center on his uncle, a colorful and irresponsible army sergeant who was a family hero to the boy.
nostalgicaffectionatewarmreflectiveold-fashionedgentlefamily-centered
What happens
A Gift to Last is a CBC Television Christmas special broadcast in 1976, a subsequent family drama series that ran from 1978 to 1979, and a stage play based on the pilot episode. In both the special and series, Gordon Pinsent portrayed Sgt Edgar Sturgess. The series, A Gift To Last, originated in a special of the same name, produced for Christmas 1976. In the special, written by Gordon Pinsent, Melvyn Douglas played Clement Sturgess, an elderly man who looked back on his childhood Christmases at the turn of the century, and especially to his family hero, his uncle, the colourful and irresponsible Sergeant Edgar Sturgess of the Royal Canadian Regiment, played by Pinsent himself. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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