Omnicity
1992
Documentary on interactive videodisc
Thanks to an interactive navigation tool on a touch screen, we travel in time, diving into the rich past of Montreal, the island.
Omnicity combined history and technological innovation for a novelty in museum technology. Set up in a booth at the Bonsecours Market and then at the Montreal Museum of History, the device celebrated the 350th anniversary of the founding of the city of Montreal.

Guided by actors cast as the founders of Montreal (who had apparently temporarily left their plinths on the historical Place d'Armes monument), the user had access to an important body of geographic, historical and architectural data. Offering a window on a vast range of visual archives (photographic and historical illustrations), the content of the interactive station was deployed on super-imposed maps of Montreal recounting the nearly four centuries of occupation of the island territory.
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35mm film , 16mm film, video and Softimage computer graphics . 1 hour of image material, 2 hours of sound.
60 min of visuals
120 minutes of sound
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Historical subject

Videos

Main collaborators

Concept Design
Philippe Baylaucq
Wilfrid Lamoureux

Technical and project management
Wilfrid Lamoureux

Producers
Josette Gauthier Communications
Office national du film du Canada

Project coordinator
Danièle Gauthier

Musical Score
Jean Sauvageau
Marcel Brunet

Image post-production
Guy Picotte (Magiscope)

3D animation
Laflèche Dumais (Softimage)

Production Photographers
Bertrand Carrière (n&b)
André Dufour (image grabs of video shoot)

Omnicity
1992
Co-Writer and Director
Co-produced by Josette Gauthier Communications and the National Film Board of Canada.

Daniel Carrière, Le Devoir, mardi 30 juin 1992

Omnicité is the prototype of what promises to be the educational vehicle of the future.

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