British Columbia for the Empire
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
This silent documentary shows battalions from British Columbia training and leaving for World War I. It was made by a local filmmaker using footage he shot over two years.
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What happens
British Columbia for the Empire was a Canadian feature-length silent documentary film produced in 1916 by Vancouver filmmaker Arthur D. Kean and released through his company, Kean's Canada Films. It was a compilation film, assembled from his theatrical shorts (shot in 1914–16) that depicted individual British Columbia battalions in training and departing for service in the First World War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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America Goes Over (1918)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.