Posted on 05/07/06
Who's killing Death By Popcorn?
One day in March, 2005, the phone rang in the studio of a loose collective of Winnipeg historians-turned-video-artists known as L'Atelier national du Manitoba. An employee at CKY, the Winnipeg CTV affiliate, was calling to report a cornucopia of potential artistic source material: Because CKY was moving to a new location, 1980s footage of the now-vanished Winnipeg Jets hockey team (some tapes no longer easily viewed because of changed technology) was destined for the dumpster. "Better you guys should take it and do something with it, otherwise it's just going to waste," the employee told them.
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